Plague 101 | National Geographic

What is plague? How many people died from the Black Death and the other plague pandemics? Learn about the bacterium behind the plague disease, how factors like trade and urbanization caused it to spread to every continent except Antarctica, and how three devastating pandemics helped shape modern medicine.

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[NatGeo]

Developments in microbiology, medicine, and sanitation have been instrumental in the prevention of future plague pandemics. In what other ways do you think these same advancements benefit us today?

[quan-oh-re]

"this plague however was the last"

Corona Virus: "challenge accepted"

[elenagaroti]

This is why we should always remember that History repeats itself

[princetanalgo]

I'm here because of the recent case in China

[ArtwithBen]

-541 - Plague of Justinian
1348 - Black Death
1855 - Third Pandemic
2019 - Coronavirus

[adityashukla]

Who else is here after China announced new traces of the dreaded bubonic plague in Inner Mongolia?

[anveependharkar]

" Making it the most widespread pandemic in history "


Corona : Tough but imma still try

[TheBandana]

A minor outbreak of a plague like disease occurred in Surat, Gujarat, in the western part of India in 1994. However, it did not spread beyond Gujarat province. It was pneumonic type and not bubonic, the classic plague associated with outbreaks. I may be one of the few people alive who has seen an actual case of plague, as I was a post graduate medical student at that time, and cared for a patient.

[gauravthakur]

YouTube algorithm really has funny sense of humour. Recommending video after Chinese Wuhaan Viru$ Pandemic.

[fleurdepapaye]

Seeing human body as the most complex thing in the universe, but in other hand it is so fragile and can be destroyed easily by small simple creatures, it is so mind boggling.

[toofast]

Who's here after the news of that the bubonic plague is found in china?

[_noobin]

"This plague however was the last"

Coronavirus: Surprise shawty!🤪

[lanban]

Learning about the Black Death while in a pandemic really hits different

[pennyboii]

Doctors are of vital importance in human civilization . People do not see these doctors and medical researchers important. But when a pandemic strikes they are very valuable.

[beautifuljade]

I love the narrator's voice. Her voice is soothing and makes the topic easier to understand. Kudos!

[brucethomaswayne]

Old pictures and arts portraying sufferring of people from sickness terrifies me.

[vaskostojanoski]

It's funny when she said that a pandemic is a thing of the past.

[himanshuporwal]

Lack of medical knowledge is still haunting us.

[starrichens]

National Geographic: "a thing of the past...."
Coronavirus: "NOPE"

[juritudiyearsago]

“Making plague pandemics a thing of the past”


Coronavirus: am I a joke to u sis