Fighting Ebola: How We Battle One of the World's Deadliest Diseases

[@Badgerbadger1]

One of the most haunting descriptions of ebola I've ever heard was that it's a disease of love: the love of people who refused to abandon their sick family and friends, who would risk transporting them to receive healthcare, who insisted on giving them the basic dignity their culture demanded in funerals, and so on. Too often this is framed in terms of superstition and fear, and I think it's ignorant to talk about this in that way when much of the risk is a reflection of people's bonds with each other.

[@iftikhar-ii7cy]

Almost every Viral disease is a disease of love then.

[@mikitta47]

I remember studying Ebola in my virology class in college. It is absolutely terrifying. God help us if it changes in virulence and transmission.

[@30cal23]

I'd be more afraid of a rabies and ebola hybrid, not only would the symptoms of rabies spread it more if this hybrid virus killed people slower the 28 days virus would be a reality

[@nickwarner8158]

It will evolve just as it always has. People will spread misinformation as they always have. Anti-vaxxers will fuel the flames as they do now and while a mutated ebola that is more easily transmitted would likely be less intense than its current form the body count will be huge. Just like COVID, the more times it gets to replicate itself in a human host the more variants we will get and you will see people dying simply for being to stupid to listen to doctors and instead listening to ignorant clergy and power-hungry politicians who don't care how many people they hurt. Its just a matter of time before the next iteration of this virus goes global.

[@videohouseforeman9323]

the hot zone is a great read about ebola :)

[@femain1788]

The one sliver lining is that because of its mortality and severe symptoms, most patients are incapacitated before being able to spread it too much. This makes contact tracing easier since you can very case much quicker without second guessing If you have it or a regular flu (not to mention the asymptotic with Covid). However a aerial or weaponized variant would be terrifying as containment and the breakdown of medical system and society would be cause a lot of unnecessary death.

[@PiitaaDerbez]

​@@nickwarner8158 I was naive enough to think that COVID19 would unite the country, and oh boy was I wrong. And the whole "it has a 99% survival rate what's the big deal??" is absurd. 1% of 330million is 3.3 million deaths, and that's not even counting the 1000s of people who would die from something else as a result of the hospitals being overwhelmed. So amazing that people don't understand that a "99% survival rate" is actually not that great. We are doomed.

[@BlueScreenCorp]

At this point, I am convinced Simon is a really high quality VTuber, a time traveler, or got a hold of the Wheezy Waiter cloning machine... HOW ON EARTH CAN ONE MAN BE IN SO MANY VIDEOS?!?!?

[@Nepheos]

and he even starts new channels and podcasts like every few months. just how much free time does he have left, considering he has a family and still does this... pure efficiancy

[@Chris-jw8vm]

I get the impression from a video or two where he argues about the script that he just reads it rather than writing it. Wouldn't take long to do.

[@morrigan908]

@@Chris-jw8vm Yes, he doesn't research or write any of his scripts or edit the videos. All of that is outsourced. He hasn't made a secret of the fact that he just presents them. I think he got started in KZbin after doing either some audiobook narration or a small bit of voice acting.

[@WardyLion]

He’s a good presenter. He’s articulate, eloquent and modestly confident.

[@BlueScreenCorp]

@WardyLion he was also releasing upwards of 6h of content a day...

[@ImplodedAtom]

Simon's so worried about a global outbreak that he didn't even ask us to smash that like button before he disappeared!

[@quackaddict2203]

He doesn't plug in any of the videos on this channel. Into The Shadows just has awesome, generally thought-provoking endings 😁

[@adelelouise]

Maybe he's not feeling well??!! 😯

[@quackaddict2203]

@@adelelouise Into The Shadows videos don't include plugs or self-promotion.

[@hullinstruments]

@@quackaddict2203 yeah it’s too dark. I don’t know how he could possibly plug something at the end of these videos and still have a soul

[@prof2yousmithe444]

@@quackaddict2203 jj

[@ImCarolB]

Some years ago, my doctor left to set up a maternity clinic in Sierra Leone. Suddenly, she was back. I asked her about it and she told me a horrible story. She had 7 women come in to deliver babies. According to the protocols of the hospital, they were put into 72 hour isolation to observe for Ebola. Because all 7 women had female genital mutilation, all 7 women and all of their babies died during the isolation. None showed signs of Ebola. She ended up being there a week and then realized it was absurd to plan a clinic at this time.

[@bullpupgaming708]

I remember reading about this in the book "The Hot Zone" back in the 7th Grade, and holy shit this virus family scares me to this day.

[@craigmiddlemiss6917]

that book gave me nightmares YOU DONT WANT EBOLA TO GET LOOSE specially the part where the guys on the plane and he super sick and his symptoms get explained and then he gets into the terminal and starts bleeding from early orathis and vomiting

[@soylentgreenb]

Worse diseases are possible unfortunately. African swine fever in pigs combines ebola levels of lethality with high infectiousness and extremely high persistence in the environment (months). Prion diseases (CWD) in cervids are 100% deadly, survive through an autoclave, survive in the environment for years; really horrible way to die and show now symptoms until late in the disease. It's not a virus, just a misfolded protein and an incredibly stable one that is contagious.

[@chrisproost7290]

Same. Found it as a Kindle suggestion a few years ago. Hell of a read and well worth the (iirc) well under a fiver it cost.

[@carastone3473]

@@craigmiddlemiss6917- it’s ‘orifice.’ Lol

[@KatieDeGo]

​@@craigmiddlemiss6917" ripped like bed sheets" was the phrase I remember from that book, talking about his organ lining

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:05 - Chapter 1 - 1976 4:00 - Chapter 2 - The virus 6:05 - Chapter 3 - Later outbreak 7:55 - Chapter 4 - Containing ebola 10:30 - Chapter 5 - West africa outbreak 14:45 - Chapter 6 - A sleeping horror

[@poulos341]

Thank you!

[@not-a-raccoon]

It's a very somber reminder of just how fragile we and our society truly are

[@Black-Sun_Kaiser]

Society is what we call it but its one of those ironic names.

[@JatPhenshllem]

@@CashelOConnolly Yeah, it's the greatest killer in Botswana last time I checked, not sure if the statistics still hold true, since there's lots of "condomise" campaigns and the gov provides free ARVs to positive people

[@CashelOConnolly]

@@JatPhenshllem Botswana is experiencing one of the most severe HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world. The national HIV prevalence rate among adults ages 15 to 49 is 24.8 percent, which is the third highest in the world, behind Lesotho and Eswatini.HIV/AIDS threatens the many developmental gains Botswana has achieved since its independence in 1966, including economic growth, political stability, a rise in life expectancy, and the establishment of functioning public educational and health care systems. The prevalence and impact of HIV/AIDS in Botswana is notoriously hard to estimate. For example, it was in 2006 calculated that high HIV infection rates should cause slight annual population decline. However the 2011 census showed robust population growth averaging 1.9% per year since the previous census in 2001.

[@JatPhenshllem]

@@CashelOConnolly Right, you know the statistics better than me, ignore my previous comment HIV/AIDS had the power to f*ck up Botswana, and still does.

[@michellesmith7728]

I am disappointed that you did not mention the outbreak in DRC in 2018-2020. Over 3000 cases, over 2000 deaths, over 1 million vaccines administered. Also, the vaccines that are being used, the newest containment measures were all developed in DRC by Congolese viralogists and doctors.

[@michellesmith7728]

@B Blanchard I wasn't trying to be negative, Simon and his crew are incredible. However, I actually live in Goma, North Kivu, DR Congo. It took 2 years to contain this outbreak due to war. A Congolese doctor created the vaccines and there is very little spoken about him and his incredible work here. We currently have more cases just North of Goma, so this does not ever go away for us.

[@atsleyrick7731]

Who??

[@Weapah]

@@atsleyrick7731 the person deleted their comment

[@jrcooper83]

This isn't a surprise. Covid panic was more important to media and government.

[@mastercheif878]

@@michellesmith7728 Never knew this, must read up more on it, sounds like something that definitely needs recognition

[@ThunderStruck15]

Point of fact, the plague is still present today. It can be found yearly in the American southwest, carried mostly by prairie dogs, but rarely spreads to more than a few people.

[@Ayem427]

What's more terrifying is that it has shown the ability to resist antibiotics in Madagascar, if we don't work on developing better antibiotics, and keeping people from getting them for things like a damn cold, the plague could fully be a threat again

[@ThunderStruck15]

@@Ayem427 oh *good* that's *wonderful news*

[@tigress9643]

@@Ayem427it’s a virus. So ABs are of no use for Ebola viruses. The use and overprescribing of ABs is the main cause of AB resistant bacterial infections.

[@lilly8305]

I remember how terrified I was of the Ebola virus when it made headlines back in 2014. I was only 12 years old but my anxiety was through the roof, checking the news every single day to see if the virus had made its way to my country. Ebola never appeared here(Sweden), I think, but I still couldn't bring myself to drink tapwater out of fear of it being contaminated.

[@siggz2096]

Same thing happened to me, I was 12 and it terrified the shit out of me

[@csn6234]

You little wussies. Probably freak out at the slightest mention of something bad.

[@lilly8305]

@@csn6234 Damn dude, who hurt you?

[@KendlickLama]

That fear sounds unhealthy , go see a doctor

[@mexican21]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Queenfloofles]

My Grandad was in charge of the quarenteen of the first Ebola outbreak in the DRC. It always worried him that it would go worldwide. Sadly he died in April 2020 from Covid.

[@GuntherRommel]

Nice. I'm very much enjoying this channel, Simon. Thanks!

[@purplehaze2358]

I want you to picture, for a moment, the hypothetical scenario of Ebola going airborne. No reason in particular; just wanted to share a very small portion of my existential dread.

[@justinsmith4562]

Boring

[@carastone3473]

Like the Motaba virus from ‘Outbreak.’ 😳

[@RachaelSA]

Simon Whistler, Carl Sagan & Sir David Attenborough have taught me more stuff than 18 years of schooling ever did.

[@evantambolang3052]

For me it was Bill Nye

[@Chris.Pontius]

And people wonder why I can get so fed up about misinformation... It kills people. Great video as always. Time for something a little more light-hearted now, like the casual criminalist.

[@pr0xZen]

No _[BRAAYYN]_ Blaze with Dickhead?

[@MrZdixo1]

AM I RIGHT PETER!!!

[@testaccount4191]

but who gets to say something is misinformation? like the Covid lab leak which turned out to be true, cover ups gets people killed as well.

[@pr0xZen]

@@testaccount4191 Source. Provide one scientific-oriented, data based source. Not an opinion or "there's lots".

[@Chris.Pontius]

@@testaccount4191 There are plenty of fact checking sites. That's a good start.

[@StarManta]

The next great pandemic won't be COVID or Ebola, but rather, new Simon Whistler KZbin channels.

[@VFastt]

Im ok with that

[@quackaddict2203]

There's been community spread for some time. 😆

[@PaulsGarage]

Gimme the blaze variant

[@Sanguinala]

I, for one, welcome our new KZbin overlord

[@QBCPerdition]

You mean Whistler's Infotainment and Toiletry Emporium, F/K/A KZbin?

[@not-a-raccoon]

The closing of the video was very appropriate. A subject like this speaks for itself

[@Elanessee]

I've worked in Sierra Leone and Guinea in 2014/2015 for the Ebola reponse. This great video brought back so many memories

[@asmith181]

Wow. What was that like? Were you scared? (Obviously you were im guessing, I think what I'm asking is were you paralysed with fear? I think I would be) Are you ok? Did you get sick?

[@Elanessee]

@@asmith181 we were working at a clinic, we were very careful and to be honest I did not have time to be scared. You just have to help people, take care of them and their loved ones and make sure you do not touch anyone without your gloves on, you have your own cups and bottle / cutlery :)

[@stevefeatherston4977]

Thanks for this ... In your videos, I simply love the way that, when you are finished, you simply get up and walk away. It's a nice touch, saying "Hey, I'm done, it's over."

[@Ittiz]

the ebola outbreak in 2014 was the 1st one that made me nervous. Especially after someone came down with it in the US and it turned out she traveled by plane while she was sick. Since I travel for work and I just happened to travel that route around that time.

[@TheHikeChoseMe]

yup and when 'people' were calling for quarantine it was deemed 'racist'. now look at us

[@jennh2096]

It was one man in Dallas that brought it back here from Nigeria I believe. He is the only one thatgot sick here, other than the 2 nurses that initially took care of him without the appropriate PPE. Both of them recovered. He didn't spread it to anyone else, not even the paramedics that took him to the hospital. My dad was the Captain at the fire station that transported him.

[@Ayem427]

We came REALLY close to having our first pandemic in 100 years in 2014 instead of 2020, isn't that wild

[@Ittiz]

@@Ayem427 Thankfully, Ebola was way less catchy. That flight was a wake up call for me. When COVID came around I started to refuse to fly. I've got a family who's way more vulnerable than me.

[@ianhowell4015]

Out of all of the KZbin channels with Simon this is probably my favorite. There are some really odd, twisted and intriguing stories here. It's like a darker biographics. Make more content, it's so good!!!

[@cmagee79]

I'm impressed, and horrified, by those blood-track statistics shifts. Whoever does your cut-work deserves a little extra praise.

[@prof2yousmithe444]

I have to love how Simon can take such a subject and make it much more interesting and informative!

[@The_Lone_Wolf]

Thank you Sir for your very informative videos, I just watched your video of chlorine gas in World War 1 and then promptly after that, this video on Ebola, the biggest thing I like about your content is that, you always are objective and very thorough in the lead up to the story, then the meat and potatoes of the story and the effects and after effects and the end of the story. I only recently subbed to your channel, and I find that your content is top notch quality, in terms of research and your compassion in your content, for example the video of the use of chlorine gas in World War 1 and then this video on the Ebola outbreaks. You are definitely in my top 5 creators of whom to watch, with the goal of learning something new from you, be it military history or of a medical issue that has my interest. THANK YOU Sir, for your hard work, dedication and lots of research into the topic you uploaded and not doing non sequiturs to other topics during your any of your video content Sir.

[@sallyintucson]

I had no idea Ebola first popped up in the “70’s! Thank you for these informative videos.

[@fhuber7507]

Check timing vs the movie: Outbreak ******* Oops that was the remake Dustin Hoffman was in the original. Can't recall the name.

[@_Wiseguy7]

I officially cannot keep up with how many channels Simon has.

[@Nesseight]

Sometimes I close my eyes and randomly subscribe to a channel just to find that it's hosted by Simon.

[@foomanchoo5409]

Hey Simon, first off thanks for all the info, appreciate you. How about a video showing us the beginnings of all of the vacines we have and trust. For instance, I like to know how the measles or polio vacine roll out went. Did they see the distrust we're seeing in the current vacine, did the vacines all work in the beginning, etc etc.

[@ay8967]

The covid shot isn’t a vaccine so…..

[@scottguffie7759]

Funnily enough most of that is covered in a Megaprojects video on how we eradicated smallpox. Fascinating video.

[@joywebster2678]

I was a child and among the early recipient of those early vaccines. The excitement around the polio Vax was felt, since children were living in Iron lungs, I went to school with kids with limps from the infantile polio version. My grandparents came with my mum and I to get my smallpox shot. They had lived in England and feared smallpox. So again there was relief to see children and others protected from diseases that did harm and killed people. It wasn't theoretical back then it was relief. My family was quarantined with big red signs on our house for weeks because one of my sisters caught scarlet fever. No hospital would take her for fear of spread. Public health came by daily to inspect my mother's disinfection of dishes routines etc., and the family doc geared up and saw my sister in the dining room/sick room daily. Neighbour's left food outside and knocked. She survived, but we didn't sue anyone for making it public we were quarantined...it was our duty to not spread it. The early 60s a whole different, but kinder world.

[@BlueCyann]

@@ay8967 Yes it is, stop lying.

[@pegleg2959]

@@BlueCyann well, it is now they changed the definition of vaccine. It's a totally different technology than anything that's ever been used on humans before.

[@otakuman706]

This is actually the agent to make me focus my microbiology interest into virology in particular. At the time I could scant references without getting access to more specialized textbooks and the like. It just made me more interested with all the unknowns I had. I also spent quite a while really keeping an eye on possible outbreaks in any (especially related) areas where it had already had an outbreak(s) and whatnot. Got to the point where I was way too worried about this type of outbreak happen- probably didn't help with the timing of books and/or movies like The Hot Zone or Outbreak etc.. Though researching it likely helped. Well, maybe not exactly helped...but at least made me more aware and put things in a more informed perspective. And it even pushed me into planning to one day do research at one of the BH4 labs. Those more recent, larger outbreaks did get me a bit worried for a minute though, I'll admit that.

[@johngavin2570]

Even though it's shorter, I like this just as much as the biographics episode done on Ebola. Simon, can we get more history on diseases? These are great!

[@domonicsdaniel4497]

Thank you so much for these constant quality and informative videos, for both you, Simon (you are an incredible host!) and the team behind them! The research and accuracy going into these videos is nothing short of breathtaking, yet, you manage to present matters of politics, biology, science and biographies in a condensed, yet very accurate and easy-to-follow manner! Hats off to you and all the best for you and your team/colleagues! Keep up the good work!

[@scottguffie7759]

As an interesting sidenote the Author 'Tom Clancy' used this very disease as a plot device in two of his books. Specifically "Executive Orders" and "Rainbow Six". Clancy is a brilliant author even if a number of the things he writes about are rather unrealistic at times. That said, using Ebola as a bioweapon in a 1996 book and another in 2000 before the disease became famous was certainly impressive.

[@marthajensen9383]

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[@uidsea]

That closing message really should be heard by the world. We've been lucky (relatively speaking) with covid. Imagine if the lethality rate was half that of ebola.

[@chrisbartolini1508]

Tens of millions of deaths easily

[@jm-holm]

It's not so much luck as logic. A virus that's extremely deadly will kill or incapacitate the host before they can move around spreading the virus in public. What you'll get is almost always a virus that's extremely contagious and spreads widely because it doesn't make you sick enough to stay at home (influenza, covid) or one that kills a large proportion of those infected but doesn't spread as easily. (ebola, rabies) Viruses tend to mutate towards the former as well. A dead host is not good for the virus, the virus needs the host alive to spread to the next. The less deadly the virus is, the more hosts it will spread to, the more successful it is and the more rapidly it will change and mutate. That's why new covid variants pop up every month, it's spreading so rapidly it's mutating constantly in every direction turning into different strains.

[@gregogreg3900]

I demand the knowledge factboi

[@IntotheShadows]

That's what I do.

[@andreagriffiths3512]

I learnt about Ebola via the book The Hot Zone. Truly terrifying

[@lizc6393]

Tbh, I wasn't aware that the survival rate was as good as 50%... I thought it was worse (obviously still totally harrowing.)

[@QBCPerdition]

Really depends on where you are. 50% is the average, but the survival rate for those who came back to developed nations was 100%, while those in some of the poorer countries was closer 20%.

[@williambrandondavis6897]

Lots of Ebola stains. The death rate varies between strains. If I remember correctly the Zaire strain was the most deadly, something like 80% fatality rate with that one.

[@zach-7965]

@@williambrandondavis6897 in early outbreaks Zaire got up to 90% but nowadays it’s closer to 50 and 60% in more recent outbreaks.

[@therevanchist1123]

There was a couple times in Virginia where there were monkeys infected with Ebola that escaped, I believe both from the same location that has since been closed

[@Secretfire21]

oh man i wish the algorithm would pick this video up into the trends but i wonder what could possibly help with that

[@pansprayers]

Unfortunately, it would require the idiots who spread misinformation about the current Rona issue to knock it off. We know the likelihood of that happening, though.

[@Chobaca]

I remember being quite scared of this when I heard about it as a kid.

[@StefanMedici]

Thanks Simon, the sun was shining, I was having one of those rare happy days.

[@YaKupoKitty]

Enjoyed the video! Just the point out that the typeface/font in this video is sometimes a bit small and dark to easily read on a smartphone.

[@MJFish]

I agree

[@lisamoulton2540]

My volume is always having to be at full volume for this channel.... Simon can you change this? I know you're equipment is top notch. 👍👍 love your channels.

[@andrevanderwalt2515]

Suspect the problem is at your end. Simon's videos are on the same volume level as any other YT channel

[@STORMDAME]

My vo!one also has to be up full

[@MJFish]

@@andrevanderwalt2515 I agree… my volume is less than 50% and I just turned it DOWN because Simon’s harder consonants we’re still too loud.

[@joshuasteel2109]

Love the facts Simon keep up the great videos. Thank you

[@linabasilisk1955]

I first heard of Ebola in 1995 and have been interested in it ever since. I really enjoyed the video, though the death rate and swath cut by the virus is horrific. With global travel, we do need to be aware and prepared for outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics.

[@skaughtsavage]

The Beard is constant, the Beard knows all. Blessed be the Whiskers of Whistler, may they bring us wisdom forever. So say we all, "ALLEGEDLY!"

[@TheExplorder]

Hey Simon, how about a video on the "Vuurwerk Ramp" or fireworks disaster in the Dutch city Enschede. It is a rather weird story, with a government cover up.

[@Badgerbadger1]

Not so fun facts: hiccups are considered a sign that the patient is unlikely to survive. Afaik it's unclear why this is, but it is apparently a thing doctors look for.

[@MrJules2U]

Simon's ubiquity will be a meme one of these days

[@DarkHelixia]

6:49 didn't know that changing a country's name could be so deadly!

[@prismaticc_abyss]

made me laugh out loud

[@j.p.6932]

3:49 LOL, at first I thought “Ebola River” was a nickname that came after. I’m like; “well of course you’re gonna get Ebola if you go somewhere named for the disease.”

[@matthewdilger6755]

I’d imagine there is so much audio of Simon recorded it won’t be too long before he hires someone to create an algorithm to create deep fake narrations and new channels. Complete with British themed asides. Think skynet but with Simon Whistler channels. Seriously though…do an episode on AI doomsday.

[@HyBr1dRaNg3r]

You should do one on the Soviet Vektor facility and the biopreparat(my spelling may be off) I doubt it ever really went anywhere, but there were rumors of trying to splice together viruses…The Hot Zone and Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston are good ways to start. Most books are a lot of scientific/clinical/statistical talk and are not particularly exciting to read…Great channel😄

[@RichardWatt]

Vektor holds the Russian sample of smallpox.

[@Angel_1394]

I'm definitely a part of the group that says leave it alone. Photograph it, film it but all parts of it should be left. It's a gravesite. People died there and shouldn't be bothered. Their memory will not be forgotten even on e the ship is gone. Let them rest in peace.

[@ImApromox]

Before this video I had literally forgotten all about Ebola.. thanks for reminding me and informing about it!..

[@velveetaenthusiast]

I used to have a *severe* phobia of the end of the world. I was shown a documentary on 2012 as a kid and I wasn't told it wasn't real so until the very end i was convinced I wouldn't make it to eighteen. After, it took years to overcome this phobia. It would manifest in a choking fear as I'd try to sleep. Ebola was one of those. I realize now it's silly, but I'm immunocompromised and I've always been unlucky. But even as an anxious teenager, I was able to be reassured that even if it did happen, me fearing it and losing sleep at 16 wasn't going to stop it. Then my dad told me about yellowstone. I wish I could sue for lost sleep

[@mionellessi3086]

It is not silly at all. The world might end anytime. A gamma-ray burst might evaporate us before you finnish reading this comment. There might be a peanut-sized black-hole with a mass of our Sun travelling towards our planet right now. The chance we will go extinct by 2100 is quite high. According to scientists, somewhere between 8 to 20%. The biggest threat is the AI. 30% risk of global catastrophe caused by AI by year 2029. 20% risk of extinction caused by AI by 2100.

[@craigh5236]

Not enough channels, Simon! You need at least another dozen!

[@M0stlyH3lpful]

Is this another channel? Do you sleep Simon-kun

[@sandybarnes887]

Yeah, his newest channel

[@mfdu84]

For anyone interested, an excellent (and occasionally terrifying) show is The Hot Zone, which jumps between the original Zaire outbreak and a scare in the US in the 1990s.

[@j.p.6932]

5:16 Lol, I’m glad I looked at the screen to see “diarrhea”. Was confused there for a second.

[@comettamer]

That outro was one of the most powerful I've ever seen Simon do. #SimonCares

[@jordanfrancis8047]

Amazing, once again

[@firesighnavatar3283]

Ebola *fascinates* me. every few years I reread the Hot Zone (a bit outdated, but still fascinating) and go on an Information Acquisition Spree.

[@Someaddress555s]

I wish I'd heard about that Twitter study when they did it, I wish we all had taken many lessons from the 2014 outbreaks. To anyone reading this while still in Covid times, I hope you find a reason to smile today. I hope you have a great day.

[@diyeana]

Okay, I read the title as "Fighting Elba." I thought, "Idris?" More coffee please, less ebola.

[@JimBob-vb8oz]

He knows what he did

[@purcascade]

"More coffee, less Ebola" is a solid morning affirmation. 😷

[@diyeana]

@@purcascade more Elba too!

[@Luke..luke..luke..]

Having spent 7 months in Sierra Leone in 2014/2015; it was a grim site...

[@jennh2096]

You have to wonder what the mortality rate would be for ebola if there was ever an outbreak in the developed world, like in the US, where access to medical care and basic sanitation are so much better. I'd be willing to bet, although it would still be high, the mortality rates (and transmission rates) would be much lower than previous outbreaks simply because we have better medical care, clean water, the ability to isolate, and better sanitation technology to deal with infectious waste. It would still be a nightmare for sure, but the fact that the man who was infected who traveled to Dallas, only infected 2 nurses, and they both survived with early treatment. He was too far gone by the time they figured out what he had for treatment to help him. The point being, we were able to stop I in it's tracks, and it just isn't that transmissible in a place that has the resources to track and isolate, where people live in more sanitary conditions, and aren't piled on top of each other in small dirt floor homes.

[@craigmacgibbon9166]

Ebola: 10% of twitter messages about me were factually incorrect! Covid-19: Pathetic

[@monkeyfunk7891]

I enjoyed this video, does this guy have any other channels? 😆

[@deirdrelewis1454]

I’m a retired nurse in South Africa. I actually met 2 people who survived Ebola. One was a doctor and the other a nurse.

[@piermariobarozzi]

why the hell do you travel with a CORPSE with EBOLA????? I mean, I demand the Brain Blaze Simon reaction in this one!!!!

[@mdavid1955]

Scary stuff....imagine an airborne version of Ebola. appearing!

[@NightMotorcyclist]

Like Outbreak with Dustin Hoffman, though in that movie a serum was derived from the monkey that contained the virus.

[@benjaminsagan5861]

The U.S. outbreak was indeed triggered by a returning visitor from West Africa, but he wasn't an aid worker. Moreover, he died in Dallas, so that's two errors of fact in one sentence.

[@NightMotorcyclist]

And the woman who caught it was a nurse tending to said patient.

[@jennh2096]

Two nurses that initially took care of him became ill with ebola, they didn't have the proper PPE, and they incorrectly used the PPE they did have in an effort to provide more protection, which actually worked against them in hindsight. They both survived. No one else caught it from him, but many many people, had to quarantine for 30 days because it has such a long incubation period.

[@XlXDiesel2011XlX]

I think that it's fair to say that this video will leave you scratching your head 🤣🤣🤣

[@lisaschuster686]

A paraphrase of the first thing I ever read about Ebola: “Seeing the walls and ceiling of a room in which a person has died of Ebola is enough to make anyone doubt the existence of a merciful God.” (New Yorker?)

[@mattfisher368]

I remember the 2014 outbreak, I was working in an international airport at the time

[@JPriz416]

this shows how bad leadership can lead to destruction. thank god for these doctors and care givers. I wish half of my country would wake up before It's to late.

[@Rose-ec6he]

Perhaps 1am wasn't the best time to watch this

[@brigittederoch]

Ptaah - Contact report 598 - Saturday, 4th October 2014, 14:42 hrs, SSSC, Switzerland: 21. The Ebola virus causes what is known as viral haemorrhagic Ebola fever, associated with internal and external bleeding. 22. Ebola was born from the consumption of wild animal meat and contact with animals infected with the Ebola virus - which continues to be the case. 23. Transmission from person to person is also possible, although physical contact and direct contact with the blood or other body fluids of people suffering from or deceased from Ebola are sufficient for infection. 24. The disease can also be transmitted over short distances through the air and thus infect people, just as perspiration can suffice for infection if a person comes into contact with it. 25. Certain biting insects can also transmit the Ebola virus under certain circumstances, as can various small and large animal species if they are infected with the Ebola virus. 26. In addition, the Ebola virus can accumulate on objects of all kinds, such as crockery, door traps, toilets and other things, whereby the viruses can survive for up to two months and have an infectious effect.

[@crittaable]

I am a Registered Nurse...I have worked in the Covid Ward and its terrifying...but as a nurse I just put on my big girl pants and get on with my job...but Ebola or ANY of the haemorrhagic fevers scares the absolute shit out of me (no pun intended because it would...literally). I'll look after any patient...but Ebola or similar...I honestly don't think I could. We all get the "heebie jeebies" when we walk into an iso ward for the first time....no matter what it is, the first time ur gowned up and go in a room with a patient who has an infectious disease, u have to fight the urge to run...I don't think I could fight that urge with Ebola...it genuinely is the stuff of my nightmares.

[@boudicaastorm4540]

I always feel like modern Ebola outbreak discussions should make mention of people like Sierra Leone's Dr. Sheik Umar Khan, a head virologist in the country who treated 100 patients during the 2014 outbreak and yet was not given the option of trying the experimental Zmapp drug when he himself got infected and died from Ebola. Terrible circumstances, he could've continued to selflessly help so many more people.

[@davescott7680]

What I've taken from this is Covid-19 really is the outlier in naming conventions

[@NightMotorcyclist]

It was SARS-Cov-2 or basically SARS 2 but the resulting disease was a better fit for sound bite news media. Then the name became political in certain groups wanting to call it various names.

[@jec3676]

The Hot Zone is the scariest book I've ever read.

[@AfricanCryptoWarlord]

Digging these new channels

[@pmgn8444]

How about the Hanta virus? Or why are young, otherwise healthly people, often native americans (eg, Navajo) in the Four Corners region of the USofA dying of a pulmonary disease? You could call it "The Deer Mouse's Revenge".

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Not everything is about the US.

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@thatfuzzypotato1877]

I see Simon, I sub

[@quintenwhyte6660]

"WTF is Ebola? I thought it meant grandma in Spanish"- Devonte Spit' barz, a random Texan guy in Twitter, Oct 2nd, 2014

[@Grayfox426]

Can you start posting your citation sources for these videos.

[@rogueviking9268]

Simon, in another video you mentioned but specifically declined to delve in there but it would be great here: the horrors of colonialism. Love the content!

[@ChristinaMaterna]

On a slightly more up note, delve into the Maori vrs British colonials - the only time a colonial government actually acted on and fully obeyed a treaty

[@mbathroom1]

last time I was this early, ebola. didn't exist

[@sesshyro]

another channel from fact boii? Another channel subscribed.

[@geraldmansfield2631]

I occasionally get ill. I was in bed in hospital back in 2019 . Sick as a dog. Yes, they tested for COVID 19 and eight variants. I had diarrhea only an IV and salt water would keep me alive. The Nurse from Nigeria, had also worked the EBOLA. Cloudy Silver Water was the only cure. I was never in the EBOLA area I must take her word for it. Look harder for your answers.

[@truemoayyed8482]

Thanks Simon

[@dem4christ04]

A full scale global outbreak would make the Black Plague look like child's play.

[@CornPopsDood]

Mobola go to the Ebola river, & ends up dead. Manifest destiny perhaps.

[@seth7745]

Areas naturally prone to high mortality rates also have high birth rates to counter it. Outsiders come in and find ways to reduce mortality rates and they end up with a new crisis, rapid overpopulation. Trying to accelerate anthropological evolution can have disasterouse outcomes in spite of good intentions.

[@CornPopsDood]

Where those twitter “messages” posted as public, or was it really direct messages that had certain keywords?

[@NoahSpurrier]

The number of COVID deaths per day exceed the number of all Ebola deaths ever.

[@jennh2096]

But when compared to the number of infections, covid doesn't come close to having the mortality rate that ebola does. You have to look at it from a relative perspective, covid is far less deadly than ebola

[@j.p.6932]

5:10 it’s transmittable through clothing?? I thought it was leas contagious than COVID.

[@valerierodger]

Listen more carefully. Clothing _contaminated with infected body fluids_ Ebola is less contagious than Covid - its R0 (R-naught) value is much lower. It requires direct contact through bodily fluid, unlike respiratory diseases like Covid, which can be spread through the air. And people with Ebola aren’t contagious until they show symptoms, where is people can be spreading Covid while having minimal or no symptoms, making it much harder to avoid.

[@sigsin1]

Covid is airborne, simply though talking. Ebola is touch…skin, clothing and body fluids. It’s spread differently but easier to avoid touch than something in the air.

[@sirloin869]

Marburg outbreaks: One of the world’s deadliest viruses