These animal diseases are horrifying | Casual geographic Reaction

[@Judgement_Kazzy]

Gus the Polar Bear: "I hate my life. I've spent 25 years trapped in a concrete box cut off from everything that naturally fulfills me, and I am one stressful day away from making headlines for the worst possible reasons." Therapist: "Sounds like a healthy New Yorker to me, fam"

[@fransthefox9682]

Yea that doesn't sound like a zoo that actually cares.

[@brigidtheirish]

To be fair, that *does* sound like life in NYC. Edit: And this was in the mid-90s. Yeah. Zoos had already improved a lot from the days of public-access menageries by then, but they've improved even more now.

[@SilusValeriusVT]

hi, love your videos!

[@Vincisomething]

I remember learning about some of these in Biology. The wild ones usually involve the brain and congenital diseases.

[@PandoranMama]

A friend of my parents died a few years ago of Mad Cows/vCJD. She didn't even know how she got it, but there was an idea that it could have been unclean medical equipment or something along those lines from a surgery she had when she lived in the UK. It lived in her body dormant for decades, but as soon as she found out she had it, her entire life went downhill do fast. She became a shell of herself, slowly forgetting everything as it ate away at her brain until she passed away. It was horrible to hear about through my parents and seeing videos of her towards the end of her life where she had a carer with her and could barely talk was terrifyingly sad. It might be rare, but rare doesn't mean it's impossible. =(

[@DeHerg]

Yeah, prion aka mad cow disease is one that scared me so hard that I try to avoid cow meat to this day (had a big outbreak in Britain in the late 90s because people had the great idea to turn parts of cows into feedstock for other cows).

[@lavans5721]

If it makes you feel better, it is incredibly rare. And if it makes you feel worse, don't eat Venison (deer meat) as there are outbreaks of CWD in the deer population on both America and Russia as I know of. There are videos of Deer farmers having to cull their entire deer population because some got sick. I refuse to give those little prion bastards any vector to become zoonotic.

[@mihailmilev9909]

​@@lavans5721right, ok thanks

[@mihailmilev9909]

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[@SON-jp9fm]

You're missing out on steak dude, you should try out some smoked and grilled meat in Texas !

[@creativename_]

Yeah same. Most fucked up thing about prion disease is that mad cow is just a version of it. There's another one that you can just get randomly. Thankfully it's incredibly rare, it only kills a handful of people a year, but still it's terrifying that your life can end just because you lost the dice roll that day.

[@Vincisomething]

Btw, medicated dog shampoo with pemethrin can treat scabies on people if you cant afford the medication for some reason

[@InquisitorXarius]

My thoughts concerning the horror of Prions is a personal paraphrasing I have of Kyle Reese from Terminator. “It can’t be bargained with, it can’t be reasoned with, it can’t be treated, it can’t be cured, and it will not stop till you are dead”. Again at least with Rabies you have a chance of being treated, cured, or dying peacefully in a medically induced coma in the attempt of a cure.

[@Scugzerker]

Or anthrax is also terrifying. Although not having a high fatality rate as high as Lyssa (rabies), it's still extremely high depending on how you contract it. Through the skin (95% of cases and 23.7% of death), ingestion (fatality 25-75%) or inhalation (50-80%). Clearly, not as high as rabies but with rabies there's something that can be done. Anthrax is just game over. Treatment basically does nothing at all other than increasing your healthcare bill.

[@90bubbel60]

just a note about how insanely lethal rabies is, in the entirety of recorded history 27 people have survived rabies. 27 out of millions

[@peggedyourdad9560]

Apparently there’s a tribe in Peru where the people are naturally resistant to rabies and have individuals that recovered from rabies without a vaccine.

[@serkan978]

love how casual geographics channel grew and amazing reaction^_^

[@InquisitorXarius]

Prion diseases: Alzheimers Congenial Creutsfled Jakob Disease Spinal and Sanguinary Fluid Transmissible variant Creutsfeld Jakob Disease (Mad Cow Disease, Kuru, Cronic Wasting Disease, and Scrapie).

[@InquisitorXarius]

Prion > Rabies Because at least with Rabies you have a small chance to persevere but a chance no matter its quantity is still a chance.

[@АнастасВиноградов]

I think prions are also scarier because they are pretty much super cancer. As you can get them randomly but unlike cancer they are a surefire way to go straight to the coffin. Also they are fundamentally different from all other disease causing things, which makes it extremely unlikely that there will be some sort of cure any time soon, plus they are fairly obscure diseases so there also probably is very little research being done into curing them for this reason, unlike cancer, which is understandable since cancer is the second most common reason people go meet the big guy in the clouds. But still, it's pretty scary that you can just get an incurable disease that will eat your brain for no reason at any time.

[@fatcat5817]

On the brightside as a Rabies Enthusiast myself. The CDC has been manipulating rabies and even said they harbor aerosolized rabies. 😍 February 2020 acip meeting unfinished business. Also in my state its been found naturally in |redacted| as being heavy(big) droplet. Some people died. 🤫 Imagine it released! Truly a deadly beauty. Due to incubation times, you could have a sort of "kill switch". Wonder if the NWO, WEF, or etc... Plan on buying it from them? 🤔

[@frankenstein6677]

Just imagine how life was having to deal with rabies in rural areas before industrial civilization.

[@brigidtheirish]

Old Yeller.

[@XCVBNMC]

The only way to survive rabies is literally shut down your entire body

[@Vincisomething]

A few reactions Ive watched also guessed rabies lol

[@christianleocastelo342]

Next video idea fat electrician Aimo and his Pervitin adventure 😅

[@divinedesolation4825]

I’ve only ever seen one rabid animal in my life despite living in a wooded area in the South of the US it was a Raccoon. I hope I never see another one.

[@Llandraa]

Dude love Casual G and your reactions to him, don’t know if anyone has ever suggested him but if you enjoy animal facts delivered with humor you should check out ZeFrank's many videos, he’s hilarious.

[@Scugzerker]

Some animals just do not belong in zoos no matter how beautiful or interesting they are. Sure, zoos can do something good (e.g. making people aware of these incredible beings that deserve to be protected from us - how ironic...), but does that really give us the right to lock up a highly intelligent being that needs a city-sized area to live in a small cage? Definitely not. No matter how fun a zoo can be and how much good they might lead to, the best thing they could do in my opinion is to release those that are fit to survive in the wild and instead start to function more like a sanctuary for those that cannot be released anymore or need intensive care. Again, this especially for highly intelligent animals that require a lot of space. Best of all, the Lyssa virus (commonly known a Rabies) actually has relatively few genes, so we don't understand how it does all the things it does to your body. I've had to learn a lot about bacteria and viruses, but nothing scares me more than Lyssa, prions and anthrax (had to research it for bonus points... There isn't much info available on the specific things I needed to know simply because it's too dangerous to study it that closely).

[@Vincisomething]

18:43 good thing I'm vegetarian

[@peggedyourdad9560]

Just make sure to clean your vegetables thoroughly since there can be some pretty nasty diseases on fresh produce.

[@Vincisomething]

@@peggedyourdad9560 who doesn't wash their veggies lol?

[@peggedyourdad9560]

@@Vincisomething A lot of people, apparently.

[@Vincisomething]

@@peggedyourdad9560 ever since the e. Coli lettuce outbreak (from 2006?) I can't not wash produce

[@fatcat5817]

Been hearing rumors of the brain eating itself, due to a lack of necessary nutrients. Maybe that's why I predicted soo many of the youtubers (some of them I didn't even know for long-A couple I predicted all I needed was 30 minutes of watching 1 video to be like? Wait, are they vegan. At the end of the video they mention they were! When reacting to a meme! 🤯) I knew they were vegetarian/vegan. Before they announced it. 🤔 The way I describe it as detecting something "off" about them. Maybe....That's why?

[@djcuevas1057]

Almost first.