Scientists Finally Discover the Origin of The Black Death

The Black Death killed around one-third or about 25 million people in Europe during the 1300s. This is a staggering number, which is why the Bubonic Plague was once the most feared disease in the world. Don't miss today's epic new video that reveals where the Black Death actually got started!
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[@believeinmatter]

Looking back it’s easy to see the mistakes they made, but then you realize the primitive understanding of biology they had, its surprising we survived at all

[@mr.wescottx7129]

For real

[@RonBest]

It's belived the 1/3 that didnt die had natural immunity against the plague. And since that significant case of natural selection, almost all people today are decendants to these guys, with same inherited immunity, which is why the disease can exist today without massive outbreaks or pandemics, because we no longer contract and spread it in great numbers because we are mostly immune.

[@rickdiaz427]

No carrier, no virus.

[@Dakblasta]

Lol no it’s not surprising at all actually

[@Bern_il_Cinq]

It’s not surprising. Life has over a billion years of survival history here, we’ve gotten really good at it. Besides, if the plague was too fatal it would die out itself.

[@eliasjazz]

Ibn khaldun a famous historian and philosopher of that period who withnessed the pandemic of the black death asserted that plague “devastated nations and caused populations to vanish,”and recorded in his autobiography that it killed his parents and almost all the scholars in Tunis. this is just tiny overview about how catastrophic that pandemic was

[@TrumpWonTwice]

Ayre bi ibn khara bi ayre

[@SilentJnation]

Does the narrator never get tired from doing this every day? It's a lot of work.

[@xEuryale]

Think about the people doing the animations

[@SilentJnation]

@@xEuryale Yeah the whole staff has a different work ethic

[@elissitdesign]

He’s used on other channels as well. Busy dude.

[@olas16k]

@@xEuryale I'm not trying to be THAT guy but it's very simple animation with repetitive movements most of the time. I'm sure it wouldn't take a skilled animator very long considering the amount of quality videos that this channel pumps out. They do great work!

[@efwfew]

@@olas16k actually it probably would take somebtime since, even if it's some basic animation, it seems that it's not re used character or background, so they have to create new one depending on the video. I'm sure there are multiple people on it though

[@ldddd546]

I always loved these guys simplistic and quick animation style

[@Efgdz]

Yersinia Pestis is the connected to the Plague of Justinian which was 900 years before the medieval plaque. So it’s less of the origin of the disease and more of the origins of that specific pandemic.

[@susheelkrishna5597]

The information provided in this video is really helpful. Thank you @TheInfographsShow for presenting these type of content in a creative manner.

[@adammorgan1776]

Interesting video. I am curious what the music is you're using in the background though?! What is it called? I love the atmosphere it gives

[@roberteischen4170]

I heard there were some strains that were so potent, it goes from infection to fatality in 12 hours. Evolution demanded it slow down, because if it was too effective, everyone would be gone before it could spread.

[@MFamstar1]

Your Channel is awesome!!! SEMPER FI!!!

[@rayoflight62]

Thanks for the informative video. Please, don't forget about the continuation of your video "100 days - The Fallout". Thank you...

[@jodishapiro9257]

Agreed I want that follow up video

[@Python085]

It's important to remember this and be better prepared to fight and defend from an outbreak like this in the case of another epidemic that may or not be worse.

[@khpoon5424]

so scp 049 was right!

[@sylviodante619]

Nipper, Marburg virus, Lassa fever, Chicken Gunnya, Crimean Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, Ebola, Monkeypox, Rift Valley Fever, Are just some of what the epidemiologists are currently tracking and expecting a pandemic from next. Non of witch we are prepared to fight, because to be prepared cost money. Money that is currently used for tax cuts for millionaires and corporations.

[@dwightnorton3398]

Nice Video

[@Sandwhichcat]

Wow finally they found out your vids are great!

[@lukesanderson21751]

Saw this notification and almost thought it was from scp explained lol.

[@TheMightiestInAllOfCreation]

And Thus SCP 049 The Plague Doctor was created

[@bumba5897]

On the plus side, at least it forced a lot of change an innovation...

[@jasoncalahaisen7224]

what is innovation if it only drives us even closer to extinction?

[@bumba5897]

@@jasoncalahaisen7224 Very true!

[@meme-di1oy]

@@jasoncalahaisen7224 humans never listen to warning signs unless it directly starts effecting them. A good example of this right now is climate change.

[@maxwellgrove1454]

That Resident Evil one intro track always hits hard !!

[@kingsage7195]

Heyooo Could you guys make a video on being a Navy EOD

[@Nicole_blue0406]

I don’t think it was just the bubonic plague but also the pneumonic plague. They both came from the same bacteria but they are different variations. The Bubonic plague isn’t airborne but the pneumonic plague is. So I think it’s more possible that both were spreading. However they actually aren’t completely sure which of the three variations the bacteria took, they think it’s possible it could’ve been all three.

[@Ghostbillies606]

Are any variations contagious by skin contact?

[@Smoothalcoholic]

@@Ghostbillies606 The flees that carry it can jump roughly 2meters. bacteria and virus cant infect you through the skin unless you have been wounded.

[@tuvelout]

great background music

[@mungoman540]

Reallly off topic but if you are still willing to do you vs series I would REALLY like to see one with pyramid head

[@juniijanaka1120]

Info gather is perfect

[@chriswaldrip2739]

Rats that were widespread because the Catholic Church decided cats were evil and massacred them, leading to the wide spread of rats with their fleas…

[@sageseeker9197]

Karma doing it's work

[@launch4]

Does anyone know what happens to the infected lymph nodes once a bubonic plague victim is given a large dose of antibiotics? Even if every trace of Yersinia Pestis could be magically scoured from the body in an instant, what happens to all the areas that were damaged in the meantime? Can those grotesquely swollen lymph nodes heal?

[@jessiejones6633]

The swelling goes down as the nodes return to normal size. The body has an amazing ability to heal itself. Your skin can stretch an amazing amount with no visible change and come back to normal as long as the swelling is not prolonged.

[@doctorluchart8232]

I don't think so unlike smallpox (variola major) that leaves scars all over the body

[@scottmiller1297]

Yes it would go down but the skin would be permanently scarred would be no different really than a rattlesnake bite it masticates the skin literally dissolving flesh maybe muscle you would definitely have scars

[@launch4]

@@scottmiller1297 Thanks. Seems it all comes down to what extent the body is able to deal with large areas of necrotic tissue.

[@MadaughtaUcheetah]

This actually make sense.

[@haileyanderson7119]

Im here love your videos but which country did it start?

[@leojones22]

Kansas

[@gingerfuu9174]

@@leojones22 no, Arkansas

[@ddz1375]

Kyrgyzstan

[@sleepyjoe4529]

America

[@robertdeffenbaugh9004]

It would be scary if those creepy Doctors still exist.

[@bobflemming100]

Medical malpractice is the leading cause of death in the US

[@muhammedmayer3988]

Claim your "here before this gets recommended to everyone" ticket

[@hffar6627]

Bro pls do second series of nuclear apolcolypse pls.

[@iamedyson]

Yeah, bro

[@janeewinn2384]

I was just talking about this disease earlier

[@zsomborpirok695]

What about the Justinian plague?

[@Smokey42096]

Very cool

[@Thatonegirl_scruffy]

I was just “plagued” with knowledge.

[@DankDragon62]

🤭

[@vizuren]

Haha very funny

[@kaelanreynolds9762]

Looks like you should make a compilation.

[@ironlegion1580]

plaque doctor:did someone said Pestilence

[@LITTLEJET]

People living in areas where the Black Death did not go are sooooooooo lucky!

[@jebb21]

This has been knowledge for years

[@sir.2015]

Its a re upload.

[@killeing]

According to the thumbnail, it started here- IN THE NOSE!!!

[@MacTechG4]

It was started by SCP-049? Makes sense…

[@donm5354]

2:22 Reminds me of a classic quote from SEALAB 2021 [Suspecting that a "sick" child has the bubonic plague] Captain Murphy: "I'll bet your lymph nodes are as big as cats!"

[@yuzhuocao5663]

It was in East Asia too.

[@turtleman9522]

How do you start again

[@antsjp6230]

I’m gonna have a history class which is gonna be outdated for the Black Plague after summer vacation. Shoot.

[@GreatBritianandNorthernIreland]

Scientists: not enough evidence Me that saw a quadrillion evidence that enough evidence

[@brucebergkamp]

Did ppl try to pin it on China and East Asia too? Thanks for the researchers and their hard work for finding the truth and justice

[@caydenward9773]

5 seconds ago is crazy💀

[@1Lomero]

Pls make video about estonian war of imdependence

[@Toulkun]

Music name?

[@ALL_that_ENDS]

I was just wondering where this dang plague was started,

[@travisconfer2255]

I'm confused they knew this for years. what's the part they finally discovered

[@flackstar007]

It tends to be a journey and that involves waiting until a theory can be proven beyond a reason of a doubt. So they would of known about the theory, but it took time for them to be able to find enough evidence to prove the theory true.

[@awesometastic-1017]

Science is a LOT of trial and error before deciding anything is truth. As technology evolves, especially, biologists and chemists gain a better understanding of the world. Even now, as they said that people still get it, we continue to look for why and how to stop it once and for all.

[@jme214]

​@@awesometastic-1017you and @flacksyat did not ansswer the question. Answer their question.

[@no1brookrilla]

Plague doctors will always remind me of scp 049.

[@BlackyBrownDestruction9337]

How do you make the cure

[@loke6664]

There is still a few problems.. If rats were the main spreader how come that the plague spread so fast and wide inland? I mean, I can buy ship rats spreading it but rats doesn't actually wander that much, which is why the plague in San Francisco mainly affected the harbor district (rats tend to have about a kilometer territory and rarely wander that much). I don't buy them stoving away in caravans. And villages and towns that isolated themselves usually survived, you can stop humans from entering your town but not rats. I fear that the only solution to these problems is that the fleas were on humans. While the plague can spread directly between humans, you are so sick by then that you are unlikely to travel. But I guess it is easier to blame the rats, they rarely make anyone happy. Rats have spread plague several times, in India and the before mentioned plague in San Francisco 1900-1904. People kinda assumed the black death spread the same way but that doesn't work with what really happened. The plague spread at the rate of a walking human inland and the plagues we know had rats spreading it only spread fast in places with ships.

[@TheMormonPower]

The latest information says the plague was spread in two ways. 1. By lice and fleas on people. 2 By pneumonic plague IE by people coughing and sneezing on each other.

[@sm-lh8hv]

We live in a different time period , pests were much more abundant back in the 1300's there was also an extreme hatred and mass killings of cats in this time period which aided in the rats spreading it , they believed cats were associated with witch craft and the devil

[@ferociousfil5747]

Yes the rats are a theory with holes in it, I think it’s just people blaming rats when it was actually mostly human to human…

[@sm-lh8hv]

@@ferociousfil5747 the actual culprit was the fleas , they were carried by rats , of course after that it was human to human but the fleas were the original culprit

[@DrgnLdyLizzie2001]

It wasn't the rats. It was FLEAS on rats. The infected fleas were on people, livestock and yes, rats. Also, during the time, many countries were going through "witch trials" and killing "familiars" like cats.

[@gokublackssjr9335]

I picked the wrong video to watch while eating 😭

[@stew6302]

I expect Bob Beck protocol will treat it

[@joshuareyesproductions4830]

i like it!!

[@Brandonian]

This is a awful way to go, it’s bone chilling. Everyone, stay safe!

[@lcdcstudios]

all I can say is wow

[@jakeg3126]

I wonder how scary it had to be back then.

[@Fr0zenNightmare]

Imagine if you know 3 people most likely at least 2 of them will die

[@jakeg3126]

@@Fr0zenNightmare That's probably worse thinking about it that way.

[@TiberiusTheLivingLegend]

Jesus this thing is hundreds of years old

[@lilhotfrylitty9091]

Yes

[@database_enjoyer3000]

agreeing to the fact that theres still a disease from the 1300s *among us* is horrifying, the fact we can still get it today, the fact people die alone and cold from a disease is all horrifying, i hope these scientists can stop it

[@zmandemon3]

AMONG US?????

[@dextermorgan1]

@@zmandemon3 Did you listen to the video?

[@dextermorgan1]

From the sound of it, they would actually be pretty hit when they died. 🤷‍♂️

[@G-neet]

among us

[@G-neet]

sus

[@Bxcream]

5:39 Ted (The Milk Man) Nivison

[@christopherlussier4383]

still does not explain how it came to be.

[@erniebuchinski3614]

Fuggin' fleas . . . 😮‍💨

[@ThrillSeeker3524]

This will help SCP-049 find the cure for the Pestilence

[@ThrillSeeker3524]

@WhiteW0lvesGacha yes, I know. It's more esoteric for him

[@Asdcoolot]

THEY SAID IT

[@dusty9618]

Still watching

[@Leftatalbuquerque]

Anyone reading this had ancestors that survived.

[@slcparis2]

Except native Americans, south Americans, aboriginals ECT

[@indigenousamerican3148]

My ancestors survived

[@slcparis2]

Was listing people's who were not affected

[@georgislavov8130]

...or where never infected.

[@kaiakk727k]

@@indigenousamerican3148 Mine too

[@asan4628]

I am sorry but I found your pronunciation of Issyk-Kul rather funni

[@cianmannion1752]

Can u do a video on polio as there is the first case in decades in the news

[@EnglishScripter]

@The Infographics Show

[@gerardosoto8878]

Imagine the research this man due to make a video

[@glenmenas9424]

This was discovered a long time ago

[@Miao559]

I wonder if people will do this with our bones in the future to track COVID.

[@Galaxy-ke9mf]

Yeah I'm thinking the same thing.

[@MM-qx6br]

pretty sure they will. we're talking about a vicious disease with 1% death ratio

[@dylankelly2036]

Probably not they already know where it came from. A lab in Wuhan, China.

[@alexbibby9641]

@@dylankelly2036 seems possibly likely, but I am still sceptical about the precise point of origin of the virus. Im not saying its wrong but likely, im just the kind who needs a little more concrete evidence to believe it

[@dylankelly2036]

@@alexbibby9641 it’s good to be skeptical. I don’t believe anything these animals tell us. Especially if it involves ruining peoples lives.

[@gr4s5h0pp3r6]

yes

[@wilmoney4619]

This isn’t new. This has been known for a long time…

[@vladimirovna2478]

I dont know what you mean about we just recently found out how people were infected. I was taught in middle school 8-ish years ago that it's was caused by fleas on rats.

[@RoastHardy]

Me too, but it's safe to state Infographics did their homework, for sure.

[@kevinjhonson5925]

That can pin point this but Covid-19 no clue. I guess it’s hard when all the documents and samples go missing.

[@CHECHNYA3017]

I am so happy that i did not live in the old days... Be happy for what you have and for what is happening because it may not happen again.

[@user-rr7vs1wq1x]

So true , my brother are you Chechen?

[@CHECHNYA3017]

@@user-rr7vs1wq1xYes i am

[@GamerKru1996]

Humanity's lucky they survived the Bubonic Plague

[@dwelch3114]

it shows up on time to time, in southern Idaho on ground squirrels,

[@ECLands]

The guy in the thumbnail looks like bloodhound from Apex Legends, is that just me?

[@why-kc1bz]

Thought this was gonna explain the origins of SCP 049 🤔

[@Real_gandalf]

Crusader kings 2 Was kinda accurate since the plague starts in asia

[@Reo49711]

It's My Birthday Guys🥳❤️

[@gamerboy-kk3rl]

Nice

[@livianegidius9772]

Thank you very much but that fact was 50 + years old....

[@anthonygaming0246]

Wait a second.. the pestilence? Maybe that’s why SCP-049 the Plague Doctor is always crazy about the pestilence..

[@theoverunderthinker]

I was going to guess a wet market in Wuhan. I guess you learn something new every day!

[@Davidolsen808]

Funnily enough, the previous theory was that the plague originated in Wuhan. The theory presented in the video is brand new.

[@theoverunderthinker]

@@Davidolsen808 that is funny; I was just making a joke! I had no idea that was even a thing! interesting! 👍

[@trasherjr5397]

Finally found out what 049 meant by the pestilence

[@Fr0zenNightmare]

What is 049?

[@davidlasala9505]

So it came from a pokemon country

[@pepperonish]

I mean come on, the plague

[@jack_T3579]

I would not wanna touch those bones

[@sir.2015]

Bruh why they reuploading content.

[@beansoda2772]

Why did I think this was gonna be a video on scp-049

[@suruchichitrakar6293]

Same 💀

[@mr.wescottx7129]

Well good thing I was not born in that time period centuries ago

[@BiteMe19781]

The Black death wasn't one single disease they are two distinct diseases with different symptoms that hit at different times are they both thought to originate from the same place

[@Nicole_blue0406]

What was the second disease?

[@simonhealey9253]

@@Nicole_blue0406 I think the other form was pneumonic plague

[@user-py8zm4pp7v]

Guys can u explain who those disseases pop up out of nowhere? I mean why the bubonic pleague hit at 1300 and not earlier?

[@ryanzer0170]

The right circumstances. Source A meets source B and from there on evolve and spread. Then source A (flea) makes it onto a ship and makes its way to Europe where it infected others.

[@jayne2943]

How did the plague come to england