The Village That Sacrificed Itself To Save Others | Riddle Of The Plague Survivors | Real History

Geneticist Steven O'Brien investigates whether a genetic mutation that helped the inhabitants of a village called Eyam in Derbyshire survive the Black Death pandemic in the 14th century help scientists find a cure for AIDS.
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[@teddy2596]

There’s a book based off this story - a Year Of Wonders. It’s absolutely amazing and I highly recommend anyone who likes this to read it

[@chimom7112]

Really interesting. Kudos to the scientists who made this discovery.

[@dark_fire_ice]

A couple of issues; 1st the 14th century outbreak wasn't the first on Europe, 2nd if genetic factors were the key to survival in the 14th event then why did the next event virtually wiped out everyone under 5 (the Children's Plague). Im saying that the gene mutation wasn't a part, but it has to be just one part

[@spideywhiplash]

Strange... I've never encountered LIQUID bacon fat... especially in a cooler climate.🥓🤔

[@ashlazdanovich8396]

Bacon fat can actually have some liquid, known as the grease from it. It was probably really warm in the house explaining why it wasn’t frozen. But yeah, the liquid part is probably the grease part of it.

[@laurasmith14]

The thought of "drinking down" bacon fat literally made me gag!! Lol.

[@ljb8157]

In Boston and amongst many other towns in America... we call that "liquid gold." You get some good bread in that bacon fat, and omg it's so good!

[@SotonSam]

Amazing work!

[@spideywhiplash]

Why, Thank you my good simian friend. I always do my best work, around 3:00am, while dozing off to KZbin.💤😴

[@feltongailey8987]

Forgive my utter ignorance, I just find it interesting that they "preserve" any of this disease, in a secure enclosure or not.

[@saintbernards-bulldogs]

They don't just preserve it. They study it inside and out.

[@feltongailey8987]

@@saintbernards-bulldogs I did in fact see this during the doc. That concerns me even more.

[@iluvrolaz]

Anthrax doesn't make sense even more so, if resulting death is very or extremely rare, as stated in the video. Surely half a village dying of something that it's extremely rare to die from, is even more of an improbability than something that kills most people, but not all. Seems more rare for people to die of one that is considered extremely rare to die from, than it is for the same amount to survive something only considered rare to survive from... what is the mortality rate of anthrax? That seems a more logical answer. Especially if people quarantined inside their own homes that hadn't yet been affected at the point they entered quarantine.

[@shaunkolly7113]

I was like that with Covid I have asthma and ckd so I should of be on the edge but it was just like flu week later I was fine

[@koukouland]

I was also terrified because of my asthma! In my case, I was also a carer, so I was exposed many a time. However I have never had COVID! Glad yours was mild!

[@shaunkolly7113]

Need a cure tho not a counter blocker

[@JohnOakes-mw5ls]

Did he catch Covid??? Has anyone carried out studies of those who never caught it despite living with people who had it? 🙏🙏🙏

[@N-7MereelSkirata]

The thing with covid is, even if you think ypu never had it, you cant be shure you actually never did unless you test. Covid had the strange ability to infect people without them ever developing sympthoms

[@sethalim8283]

World plague

[@_HimToo]

He was so excited to tell his family he could never catch AIDS. I can never catch aids either... cuz I'm not having unprotected sex. It's pretty much that easy!

[@thundercatt5265]

Survivors developed (herd immunity) ,back then medical science was still developing, or using current events ,something like covid -19,and humans having to go thru the pains of natural herd immunity ,because of the lack of modern medicine,is what looks like what happened, it's like watching a child grow , like those early days of civilized man,even tho a fully developed modern human ,was and still is a species who has not grown in evolution over a extended periods of time , compared to a more advanced being or species of living intelligent beings that evolved over millions of years ,to the more advanced beings they appear,as children in a way

[@WiseOwl_1408]

You drunk?

[@spideywhiplash]

@@WiseOwl_1408 😆🍻

[@missnellaful]

I agree with you! All other mammals have been categorized into multiple species, why have humans remained only as one? Diseases and disorders are one of the most revealing factors in categorization of any species. Diversity in CATS, is one example. NATURAL MUTATIONS in the Lykoi Cat created this breed. There are those that exist in humans too…thank you for your post.

[@Parade-ps6mi]

​@Emotional Leadership for TRUTH lol. We aren't alone. We have a whole genus we share with extinct species as well as the great ape family of which we are part. Species are defined by whether two individuals can produce sexually viable offspring. Donkeys and horses produce mules, which are infertile. Therefore, they are distinct species. We cannot reproduce with gorillas, so we are not the same species. Things get weird and debatable when you get to prokaryotes and asexual eukaryotes, but that's a conversation for another day.