This Disease is Deadlier Than The Plague

This video was made possible through a grant by Gates Ventures.

The white death has haunted humanity like no other disease following us for thousands, maybe millions of years. In the last 200 years it killed a billion people – way more than all wars and natural disasters combined. Even today it’s the infectious disease with the highest kill count.
But what is this horrible disease?

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[KimaniWagaiyu]

I'm a doctor in Kenya and I deal with TB every day. I find it incredulous when I'm involved in discussions of respiratory illnesses on an international level and it's primarily COPD, pneumonia or COVID when TB has been killing my people for decades with minimal innovation in the field. I really appreciate the awareness this video is bringing to the plight that plagues billions, particularly in Africa and Asia. Kudos to PIH for the work you do.

[Themonkeyinthebushes]

for a second at the start I thought steve was leaving

[kajsawesterberg]

The white death being an alligator as a metaphor is fantastic. The slow predator, the lurker.

[arc_xiv]

I caught TB and I live in France (Paris).

I still remember that the worse part was not the coughing or the fever but the loss of appetite.
I kept this disease for more than 6-7 months until I got cured.
I went to see doctors because I didn't know what was happening to me, I thought first it was flu and the doctors thought so as well.
For multiple months, nobody could diagnostic what I had and I described the symptoms : cough, fever, loss of appetite, cold sweat (I lost 15kg by the time I was cured).
It's until I got to the hospital when they gave me an X-ray radiography and you could see how big it was in my lung.

This disease is still underestimated these days, because people think that's not something that you can caught in western countries.
You should still be afraid of this shit, way more than being afraid to get COVID.

EDIT : English is not my first language so I may have some typo/grammatical errors.

[Debt-tective]

My microbiology professor said he believes the reason we're not freaking out over it is because the media doesnt bring it up on everyones radars and its a slower death so its not as shocking to people

[lavaentertainmentz]

How to make a Kurzgesagt video:
Step 1: Existential crisis
Step 2: Hope
Step 3: More existential crisis

[stolkeyna]

My mom survived Tuberculosis when she was 17. Later she started working in a specialized hospital that treats patients with tb

[CitricOrange]

This reminds me of an old game strategy in Plague Inc. Specifically where you would max infection rate but have zero severity and lethality UNTIL everyone was infected

[ExileCestus]

I'm just happy that finally someone addressed this ghost of a disease before I die. I fought for 3 years and now almost all the drugs are resistant for me. It turned into XDR or TDR they say. I don't know how much time I have left to be alive. Thank you so much John for speaking up.

Edit: I meant I'm still on drugs trying to fight with an additional antibiotic. But it might resist to the antibiotic as well. And the patient can survive 3-4 years last thing I read about it. So I appreciate the everyone but I'm still fighting. Thank you so much.

[Ricksdetrix]

Watching this with a chest infection is not good for the blood pressure

[TenguKannushi]

COVID: Who are you?

TB: I'm you, but better

[DrDingsGaster]

I love how John, the writer man of the two brothers, has made it his life's goal to stop TB in its tracks. It's a mighty pie to put one's finger in and I'm glad he has.

[aquamarinerose]

"Aww, how cute, they gave John Green his very own birdsona"

OH, that's a whole-ass man.

[AiSard]

"4000 people died of TB, yesterday" is one hell of a statement

[pjblackham]

I got TB right now. Two of my great-grandparents died of it, so we knew to look out for it and have acted hopefully quickly.

[neilaybhalerao]

Wonderfully done! After working on TB for almost 5 years, Im so happy this is getting the attention it deserves!

[scottd.]

As soon as you see the words "disease" and "John Green" you know it's gonna be about TB. Man picked the biggest villain out there to be his arch nemesis.

[senordiegoreal]

3 unavoidable things in life
death
taxes
having an existential crisis over a kurzgesagt video

[kv]

The crocodile analogy is really good.
A practiced and effective predator that has survived for a long time

[JonoFunk]

TB almost got my father, he barely escape death as he was being bedridden for weeks. Then a year later his aorta ripped, but he again he defied the 10% survival odds with a lucky clot. Now just had a throat cancer removed (likely from the TB damage) and is recovering from the radiation and chemotherapy. He is the most stubborn man I know and I couldn't be more proud of him!