Why Haven’t We Ended These 5 Diseases?

[@SciShow]

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[@vernonvouga5869]

It's just funny to me even Pfizer loves doing gain of function.... why haven't they done any of that research on phages? You know get rid of bacterial diseases and such? I just love being under Threat by people who could care less about the betterment of humanity if they can make a buck

[@johnmanno2052]

Do you see an odd contradiction, oh Sci Show folk, that one, single viral disease, which killed and maimed far, FAR fewer people than the handful of NDS's mentioned here, got ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more attention and funding, than these horrible scourges of humankind, which are orders of magnitude easier to eradicate? And if you happen to see this contradiction, this swallowing of camels while straining a (relative) gnat, can you see why so many medical workers I know, who work in these impoverished places, are angry and Marxist? And can you blame them?

[@vernonvouga5869]

@@johnmanno2052 you'll notice that most of these people that you watch on KZbin create content that follow guidelines regardless of free speech. Whatever the hell it is you're talking about, you'll only get feedback from the responses of your post. And even then that feedback is fleeting, because not a lot of people take the time to learn about words and acronyms. It's not the difference between Marxism and capitalism. It's simply a matter of who's in charge of the information

[@johnmanno2052]

@@vernonvouga5869 It's certainly true that they who control information control the narrative and therefore people's perceptions and ideas. However, the medical doctors I know in poor, tropical countries feel a great deal of frustration that the wealthy parts of the world refuse to share what is essentially pocket change for them to help eradicate fairly simple diseases that affect many millions, while spending billions on highly complex ones that affect a relatively small part of the global population. Then they start to take global wealth redistribution more seriously.

[@vernonvouga5869]

@@johnmanno2052 I've seen doctors over here fight against Lyme disease only to be thwarted every step of the way because it makes more money for the system to treat the symptoms of the disease instead of cure it

[@waleedkhalid7486]

The amount of diseases that are prevented and or cured simply by having access to clean water always astounds me.

[@srobeck77]

Or just boil the water before drinking it

[@catebrooks6779]

Ikr? I wonder if the comparably smaller populations in the Southern Hemisphere have any bearing on this?

[@Envrionmela]

And the fact that the West repeatedly proudly proclaims that clean drinking water isn't a human right.

[@erinodonnell386]

There is a strong argument that the most significant advance in history towards prolonging human life and reducing transmissible disease burden has been through water treatment.

[@lena8018]

Okay so I'm a medical student in India (a tropical and a comparatively socioeconomically underdeveloped country) and yes all these diseases are very much prevalent in our country and we actually do study extensively about them in preventive and social medicine during our medical school, so i do know that India has multiple national health programs targeted at the eradication of these diseases for example National leprosy eradication program that provides free complete course of MDT tablets to patients as well as free treatment of complications and disability limitation, these are being implemented with rigor and I've witnessed the benefits that these governmental programs provide but yes owing to the huge population and lack of access to tribal and hilly areas prove a barrier to complete eradication of these diseases, but never say never as we are making pretty good progress, let's keep in mind the eradication of smallpox started in the 17th century, it's no easy feat but all progress is progress!

[@jennahawk12]

Thank you for providing your input on that!

[@sydhenderson6753]

I'd hope guinea worm is not a problem in India.

[@dextermorgan1]

That's all great but the reason these diseases are eradicated yet is because the medical industry doesn't cure people. That's not profitable. It's all about the money as usual.

[@rishabsingh8009]

Yeah, dots for TB as well

[@ToucanSonofSam333]

Stop shitting in the street

[@lolly9804]

In the heath eduction course I was on, I used to sit next to a woman with leprosy. It's not very common anymore in the Pacific, so my reaction to her telling me was, 'wow that's pretty random'. As I've known way more people who've been treated for malaria. Context being, that I don't live in a tropical country, I just ran into a lot of sick coconuts. For one of the units we were asked to share something about our medical history. So she mentions the leprosy. So yeah some of the shitter people, in the class, were insistant that I move seats. But I already got told at the start of the year, and already decided not to be freaked out by her already uninfectious case.

[@rhov-anion]

Good for you! I bet that meant a lot to her. Compassion and tolerance go a long way.

[@cherylreid2964]

Sick Coconuts?

[@classarank7youtubeherokeyb63]

I remember seeing it on House and looking it up. It's kinda crazy to learn that it's not that dangerous.

[@orangesnowflake3769]

They asked you to share something about your medical history ?! Gosh that's a no go in my country lol its considered sensitive information, like ppl can share if they want but a teacher couldn't.ask us to share

[@helentee9863]

@@orangesnowflake3769 voluntarily l'm sure. The word used was 'asked' and the tutor/ teacher wouldn't know the medical facts themselves. Sharing medical/personal information helps build trust between groups of people

[@Mallory-Malkovich]

A lot of us just found out millions of people are living with completely reversible blindness simply because it has been deemed unprofitable to restore their sight, so it's not surprising that we're failing at eradicating treatable diseases too. What would our world look like if human life was worth more than profit?

[@floatingpiss]

this is known as communism, you are on the right track comrade :)

[@Howtheheckarehandleswit]

Sorry, what? I didn't hear about this, where can I learn more?

[@floatingpiss]

@@Howtheheckarehandleswit mr beast youtube lol

[@ps.2]

@@Howtheheckarehandleswit There's a Neglected Tropical Disease called onchocerciasis, or _river blindness._ I don't know if that's the one O. Malkovich is talking about, since it is not reversible, but it _is_ easily treatable and preventable. This video doesn't mention it specifically, but they do mention helminths (i.e., worms) as a broader category. River blindness is transmitted between humans and blackflies, a type of fly that lives around river rapids in the tropics. It's a filarial worm (like pinkeye) whose larvae burrow into your cornea, I think, and scratch it up. Over the course of a decade or two, your sight dims and eventually you go blind. I've visited a tropical village where just about everyone over 40 is blind, led around by young people who aren't blind _yet._ It's pretty sad. Treatable and preventable? Yes! Though, like Hansen's Disease described in the video, treating it doesn't restore the damage already done. But all you need is the right drug, one you've probably heard of in the past 3 years. It is, drumroll please ... _ivermectin!_ Yep, the drug used for heartworms in dogs and horses, and which has no effect on COVID-19 despite what anyone might say, is also how you fight onchocerciasis. And you don't even need that much of it. In a given tropical area near a river rapids with blackflies, just _once or twice a year,_ give everyone who lives there a dose of ivermectin. Keep doing this for 2 or 3 years, and then, _voilà_ - not only have you cleared out the worms from their eyeballs, you've also broken the chain of transmission back into the blackflies. The disease is now gone from that part of the river, until it is reintroduced from elsewhere. Merck, the Big Pharma company that makes ivermectin, donates millions of doses every year for this exact purpose. (So if you buy other medications from Merck, that's one thing you're helping to pay for.) The only real barrier to eliminating river blindness is - as with so many of these Neglected Tropical Diseases - that it occurs in remote rural areas that are hard for WHO or other health workers to access and monitor.

[@fermignano89]

This is the price of freedom. You all want a free world, free choice, free speech ect... Its really stupid to blame evil corporation, blame money or conspiracy. It's clear, the next future global pandemic, with a dangerous virus like ebola with much higher mortal rate we will all fkt. Because as you can see, many people will refuse to get vacine. The reality people are dumbs, and we are living in a free world with alot of them that can influence the whole popolation. The sad part, you have to watch a narcisist youtuber to "learn" something, or see how many millions pray mr beast for his kindness, when in fact he stated many time he don't give a f, it's all about fame and what make him happy. Wonder why you all don't reach organization like red cross and thank them or maybe donate directly them.

[@richardkenan2891]

Guinea worm was the one disease I expected to see in this list right from the start. Glad we're still making some progress. Sad that it's not as easy as it was expected to be last time I heard anything about it, since back then it was believed it required human hosts to survive and reproduce.

[@goodun2974]

This video didn't mention the inexpensive special filtration straw that was developed which prevents the worm eggs from passing into someone's digestive tract if they drink from a contaminated water source.

[@siobhand3899]

World NTD day was two days ago! I’m studying two NTDs for my senior thesis and they are so under funded and under discussed. Thank you for covering just a few of them!!

[@pedroff_1]

Only one I missed you mentioning was Chagas Disease: caused by a protozoan and transmitted by the feces of a beetle, its numbers drastically reduced with programs for safer habitation (as adobe houses are very prone to housing the bugs). Now, there are some hundreds of cases yearly, especially in the Amazon, but the number has gone down considerably over time, to the point vertical transmission (from mother to baby) and infection by eating contaminated food jave become more important sources. As to what it does, it can often be asymptomatic, but on the long term they can cause heart failure or problems in the intestines or even in the seophagus, with the large intestine being unable to move poop correctly in what's known as a megacolon. It can also, in some rare cases, be deadly when you get it, through an infectious myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscles

[@adilsongoliveira]

Well said. My father died of heart failure as a consequence of Chagas. He lived a long and relatively healthy life thought but he did have some intestinal problems because of that.

[@EvilSnips]

I've seen a kissing beetle while in Central America, hope it didn't sneak in a bite lol.

[@benjaminford9932]

Bug, not beetle - triatomine species

[@pedroff_1]

@@benjaminford9932 Yeah, I was a bit liberal classifying _Triatoma spp._ as beetles

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Unfortunately it's in parts of the southern US. I remember watching an episode of Pit Bulls and Parolees, when the personal dog of the owner (Jethro, a blue tick hound. That's the dog not the owner ;)) got it and it looked terminal. It was a heartbreaking episode. However his vet worked her ar$e off and discovered that a scientist had developed a trial treatment. Mercifully, it worked! (Yes, I cried lol!) With such dedicated work going on, hopefully that vile disease will be totally eradicated one day.

[@starrywizdom]

I've heard both "pra - zuh - KWAN - tel" & "pray - zuh - KWAN - tel" but I've never heard praziquantel pronounced "pra - ZEE - kwan - tel" before. Thanks, Stefan! I had a High School teacher who made us read the CDC's morbidity & mortality report every week, & it gave me a lifetime obsession with neglected tropical diseases.

[@paulbennett7021]

Americans have a problem with the 2nd syllable. They both stress & destress it incorrectly. It's a recent phenomenon, eg. HAR-ass to ha-RASS.

[@birdbird5337]

Fun fact: You know the asclepios-staff, that symbol for medicine with the snake twisted around a rod? It's theorised that this symbol comes from the method of worm removal mentioned in the video, as this technique is also described in ancient egyptian medical texts. A disease with a treatment that's been known for millenia (if not more) to the point that it became one of the most well-known symbols for medicine... The idea that this disease gets finally eradicated for good is quite astonishing!

[@JustAnotherBuckyLover]

I mean it's a theory, yes, (in the non-scientific definition of theory) but there are others too. I would think it fascinating if the knowledge of how to treat guinea worms made its way to ancient Greece far enough back to alter how a Greek deity was represented (even if they don't see the disease themselves). But I guess it's going to be one of those things that we'll never know for sure, especially as there's already so much mythology and historical reference to snakes etc. I remember hearing about dracunculiasis back in the 80s when I was a kid, and how rampant the infection was... so the idea of eradication (especially as I'm a medical microbiologist) always blows me away.

[@gilliancrowley9851]

This is so interesting!! I'm currently writing an essay on the influences ancient African kingdoms had on Greco-Roman empires-of which there are many-and it would not surprise me at all if this turned out to be true! So much of Greek culture specifically is taken from ancient Egypt through cultural exchange. Egyptian medicine is the basis for Greek medicine! Asclepius himself visited Egypt to study medicine. It wasn't until his death that he was revered as a god.

[@onbearfeet]

A fact I learned in college and found enraging: the NTD trypanosomiasis, aka African sleeping sickness, is an insect-borne infection that is often fatal if not treated quickly. We've had medications to treat it for many decades, but the disease is still around, inarge part because the medications are relatively expensive to produce and the areas that get tsetse flies often don't have that kind of money. Here's the infuriating part, though. One of the medications IS pretty widely produced in wealthy nations ... as a medication to inhibit facial hair growth, usually in women. Apparently one of these uses is considered "worth it" and the other isn't.

[@ps.2]

That didn't quite sound right so I looked it up. Turns out, it was true… in the 1990s. But then in 2001, the drug maker Aventis signed a 5-year agreement with WHO to donate large quantities of two drugs (plus a lot of money for health worker training) for the treatment of African trypanosomiasis to Médecins Sans Frontières (a well-known and highly-regarded medical nonprofit), including the drug you're thinking of, eflornithine. They renewed the agreement in 2006 for another 5 years, and the latest I dug up is from 2019 where the company, now owned by Sanofi, says: "Since 2009, we have been collaborating with DNDi, a non-profit organization specialized in the research and development of new treatments for neglected diseases. This partnership led to the development of fexinidazole, according to an alternative non-profit Research & Development model." Apparently this new drug is better than the old ones, so, another win for Team Humanity. And, of course, "We will donate the medicine in support of international efforts to eliminate the disease." www.sanofi.com/en/our-responsibility/sanofi-and-dndi-breakthrough-on-sleeping-sickness Moral of the story: what you learned in college is not always up to date! Sometimes you can learn to stop worrying and love the Pharma.

[@CherryJuli]

That’s nonsense. The problem is capitalism. If people can’t afford medical treatment they won’t receive it. And it’s not just like that in the third world. Look at the US and it’s medical system where people die or suffer because they can’t afford adequate treatment. It has nothing to do with deeming a certain population unworthy but has a lot to do with profit.

[@The_Midnight_Bear]

@@CherryJuli You know, the rest of the planet outside of America somehow manages to do a balance between "cyberpunk-style totally private healthcare" and "durr hurr abolish capitalism", in order to get ibuprofen and surgery.

[@bjf10]

It's all about profit.

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@CherryJuli Occasionally I watch tv programs like Dr Pimplepopper. I’m always amazed at and horrified by the size of bumps people have been walking around with and suspect that, if the tv station wasn’t paying for their treatment, those people’s conditions would have become even worse, as they’re almost certainly not insured. There are European tv programs about people with similar problems, but those have never gotten out of hand like those cases from the US.

[@InfiniteAnvil]

"I'm sorry, you have a soil-transmitted helminth infection." "OH STHI!"

[@alexwoodhead6471]

That took me a minute 🤣

[@SobeCrunkMonster]

serviceable

[@dianagibbs3550]

Thanks for covering this stuff, as it's all super important. Very frustrating to learn that dogs and cats can get the same guinea worms that humans do, but hopefully water filtration systems will help put us over the edge on that one...

[@MyRamblingRose86]

Fun fact: Seattle has so many leprosy patients they have a Hanson's disease clinic in Harborview Hospital.

[@freeofavia]

Omg that fact was so fun

[@janmcguire5268]

Former President Carter is responsible for a lot of the work of eradicating Guinea worm. He and Mrs. Rosalyn made it one of the largest projects of the Carter Center after seeing people suffering from it and seeing how painful it was.

[@gerrimilner9448]

im english, but worked as a comunity worker in an area where scabies were rife, the local surgery seeing a handfull of cases a week. it was the sort of place the council dumped people

[@russellwhisenant5554]

I have been a fan for years, and you've made a lot of great videos, but may be the best one yet! Great work!

[@DLlama]

8:50 The "hookworms" mentioned in #4 used to be very common in the American South and Appalachia where people were very poor, didn't have formal sanitation, and often walked around barefoot. Since the worm effected learning ability, this disease spawned the stereotype of the "dumb country bumpkin" which is often portrayed with bare feet. In truth, this disease was so prevalent, it's often sited for why it took the South so much longer to develop, and why rich outsiders were able to move in and exploit the people time and time again. Starting with aristocratic plantation owners (who's families weren't originally Southern and got their family money elsewhere), then the "Carpetbaggers" after the Civil War, and it still continues to this day with Republican/Right-Wing/Christian operatives who are actually nothing of the sort. These people are greed-driven liars trying to exploit isolated, under educated, low-wealth people by pretending to champion those people's core beliefs. Beliefs those very outsiders manipulated them into having over the last 6, 25, 30, 70, or 160 years; depending on what event you start counting from. (Edited for formatting)

[@jacobg3490]

I wonder what parasite is causing all of the gender dysphoria in urban environments today? 🧐

[@lazerizer6895]

​@@jacobg3490look up rates of left handedness over time.

[@SuperHGB]

​@@jacobg3490please elaborate a bit more about what you mean

[@angiecontreras9324]

So clean water and good sanitary systems would help with everything pretty much

[@CoriMultipass]

That dracunculiasis one was like the scariest thing I'd ever heard about as a kid in the early internet days. Glad to hear the numbers are so low!!

[@lizslilcorneroftheinstitution]

Great timing!!

[@itsbeyondme5560]

??

[@ryvyr]

Wealthy nations: *"Not ostensibly impacting me, therefor do not care"* Poor nations exploited by wealthy nations: *"....."*

[@steffen7505]

Imagine if the 20 richest people in the world took one disease each and did all what they could to get rid of them. Unfortunately a large portion of the richest people don't seem to care about anything but hoarding more wealth.

[@bjf10]

Yeah, they won't because profit matters more than human suffering. And Skyrage is 100% right about the pharma industry, for the exact same reason.

[@rebeccaw4507]

I went to a conference on anti-infectives research a few years ago and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation part funded most if not all of the speakers research, unfortunately building rockets is higher up the priority list for some. Also the pharma industry would probably love it if diseases where eradicated, even if it was just so that they can keep us alive long enough to be on statins/blood pressure pills/anti-obesity meds daily for 20 years or cure us of cancer.

[@mehere8038]

@@rebeccaw4507 I was going to say that Bill Gates is up for this challenge. His goal is to get sanitation/toilets to every person on the planet, which it sounds like would potentially wipe out more than 1 of these diseases. He'd probably be willing to take 10 himself if the others would take one between 2 of them. Shame they won't. Aussie "Twiggy" Andrew Forest is another billionaire that does quite a lot of charity stuff, although not in disease areas, more focused on helping Aussies & addressing energy & climate needs, which is also pretty important. I'm sure there's a lot of others too that are not the 20 richest people, but give more to help humanity than the 20 richest combined (excluding Gates)

[@Croz89]

It depends on what percentage of their investments they could safely cash out. Someone like Bill Gates with a mature, diversified portfolio can afford to give more money away, someone like Elon Musk, with pretty much all his net worth tied up in the speculative value of companies he owns, probably can't without tanking their value.

[@mehere8038]

@@Croz89 if he can afford to suddenly spend $43 billion on twitter, he can afford to spend a few billion on charity! Same with all of them spending their money on space flights, they can easily spend that money on others or the planet instead! $43 billion would be enough to eradicate ALL 20 of these diseases!

[@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812]

Wow, thank you for spreading the word!

[@quanzoboi420]

I honestly thought Linode was a Hawaiian company. Because I’m Hawaiian and the word “Akamai” means “smart/intelligent” in our language so when they say “Akamai cloud computing” I read it as “smart cloud computing”

[@Shatterverse]

Money. It's _always_ about money.

[@SobeCrunkMonster]

gotta have it, even if you disagree with it

[@erozionzeall6371]

Capitalism. It's always about capitalism.

[@Fomites]

And money is just a symbol of resources. It's all about resources.

[@helentee9863]

No, it's always about politics. Nearly everything is, if you use a small p. Politics prevent health workers reaching those who are sick, or are at risk of becoming sick. Political conflicts (terrorism and wars,and conflicts too small to be called wars) suck up money which otherwise would be spent on providing clean water, proper sanitation and housing. They cause people to flee to take temporary (and not so temporary) residents in countries not their own, that don't have the inferstructure or money to support them. All these diseases (and others not mentioned) are most common in countries that suffer from political conflict or oppressive governments. Even large amounts of money makes little impact on countries that suffer from political problems. What would be REALLY interesting would be a table showing exactly where these diseases are most common

[@your_-_mom]

@@erozionzeall6371 nearly none of these African countries are capitalist lmfao 😂 and you’re silly if you think china isn’t exploiting Africa

[@Ichigo90]

So you’re confirming what I already knew… the diseases haven’t been eradicated because it takes more than just knowing how to do it and wanting it really bad. We simply don’t live in an ideal world.

[@Kelly-gn7xb]

we use praziquantel ("prah-zee-quan-tell") in veterinary medicine too - to treat tapeworms!

[@skittstuff]

The fact that the drawbacks for most of these are 'it's expensive' rather than 'it's impossible' is disappointing.

[@brenersantosdasilva6501]

Since i live in the northeast of Brazil, me and a lot of my friends and familiy have schistosomiasis in some moment, along other parasites.

[@apathyguy8338]

Azithromycin 17 cents a tablet unless of course you're in America and it is going to be $39 a tablet.

[@postal_the_clown]

And in a few cases, that's just the co-pay.

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thank you.

[@Aureliamoonjelly]

Sources? None are listed in the description yet. I would love to bring attention to this in my class!

[@ps.2]

The search term you want is "Neglected Tropical Diseases." Lots of good information from WHO, CDC, major pharma companies, etc. Despite the name, those diseases _are_ getting some attention. Most of them, these days, we know how to treat, if not cure. Some, like polio, we can prevent with a vaccine. (Apparently a malaria vaccine is getting close, too! That's a pretty big deal.) The main problem in most cases is simple logistics. These are diseases of poverty and of remote rural areas. They are in parts of the world where roads, shipping services, telephones, etc., are not fast or reliable. In many cases, they show up in dense jungles where you can't even necessarily land a helicopter. In some places, there are very few health care workers in the world who can speak the local language. Putting the necessary drugs and diagnostics and health care workers on the ground, and maintaining adequate monitoring, can be really difficult, expensive, and sometimes dangerous. Sometimes your best efforts are disrupted by rebellions, civil wars, and other political barriers.

[@divat10]

Source: trust me bro

[@MyRamblingRose86]

Look in the lower left hand side of the video the moment he names a new illness.

[@SciShow]

Oh! Sorry about that! Everything should be updated now.

[@Aureliamoonjelly]

@@SciShow Thank you much, about to dish it out in my Epi and Public Policy class 🥰

[@davidlloyd3116]

I visited the Mbingo Baptist Hospital in Cameroon, as part of the Bill and Melinda Organisation, as part of the TB Alliance work (I’m a microbiologist). They had an armadillo breeding colony, as Mycobacterium leprae can be grown on their foot pads. ML cannot be cultured in the laboratory, but TB can, using Lowenstein Jensen medium, based on egg yolk.

[@p00lboy]

there isnt much money in cures but there sure is a boat load in treatments

[@nariu7times328]

I didn't know "more worms, more problems" was an old phrase... :)

[@DemPilafian]

Now what you gon' do with a crew that got *worms much longer* than yours?

[@Aragorn7884]

The disease we can _never_ get rid of? *greed* 🤑💩

[@mMAmericanSpiritMm]

..and stupidity.

[@Aragorn7884]

@@mMAmericanSpiritMm true 👍😬🙄

[@Ratigun]

But we can get rid of capitalism

[@edgyanole9705]

@@Ratigun capitalism isn't the problem, it's the greed of the people who got blessed with wealth

[@Ratigun]

@@edgyanole9705 capitalism is a system of greed. The purpose of capitalism is to make the most amount of money, no matter the human toll. Capitalism is immoral and evil.

[@kkado8204]

The company Akamai Technologies is named after the Hawaiian word for 'smart'. It is being mispronounced by SciShow hosts. It is pronounced ah-kah-mai or in IPA /ɑːkamaɪ/ not æ-kə-maɪ.

[@Psilomuscimol]

I had hookworms before. It sucked my foot swelled up and I couldn't walk. It went away fast with meds

[@erikybarra3898]

Just curious, which species?

[@Psilomuscimol]

@erikybarra3898 . Not sure, but I was in Central Florida by a swamp and pond/lake

[@Psilomuscimol]

(Subdermal?, transdermal?) Larval migrans is what it was called

[@Psilomuscimol]

Also, I was living somewhere with lots of feral cats. If that helps

[@fun2building]

Can't believe you didn't even mention Jimmy Carter when talking about the Guinea worm, it's like my favorite thing an ex-president has been involved in Much better than being a shithead on the internet like certain other examples

[@petenielsen6683]

Erythromycin is the one drug I cannot take. It causes crippling pain in my back and it so far the only medicine listed as an "allergy" in my medical records. In countries like the ones you talk about early in the video, however, it would probably have not mattered. If the water born diseases didn't kill me before I were diagnosed the cancer most likely would have killed me at age 28.

[@ToriDO848]

The presence of Neglected Tropical Diseases demonstrates our ethical failures as a society. Most of them are easily treatable, yet they still exist. Although many organizations exist that pursue beneficence by providing treatments to people afflicted by these diseases, there is still an imbalance of justice, resulting in the poorest people continuing to suffer from diseases without treatment. Neglected Tropical Diseases can be the result of poverty (not having access to clean drinking water), but can also contribute to poverty (causing disability and inability to work). This cycle can be broken with simple treatments, but the big question is how this will be funded. Unfortunately, the majority of entities with the money to address these global issues simply don’t care about these neglected diseases and who they afflict. They’re seen as insignificant and irrelevant, despite affecting billions of people. The WHO does a good job of rallying resources and setting goals, but there’s still a lot to be done.

[@combatking0]

Eliminating these diseases should be considered an investment.

[@smartinez020]

Awesome video 👌

[@akumaking1]

Greed by soulless corporate hacks?

[@Fomites]

How does that work? Where does greed come into this?

[@Ratigun]

Capitalism

[@jgarcia309]

Cool video thank you for the educational content

[@IchiroSakamoto]

Money because they aren’t lucrative enough!

[@Stardustabyss8365]

There's more profit into treatment than there is in cure, capitalism in a nutshell.

[@GIBBO4182]

@@Stardustabyss8365 exactly right

[@nicholaslewis8594]

Also worth considering that curing something can be way more complicated than treating something.

[@LolUGotBusted]

Did any of you guys catch the part where these happen to the literally poorest people in the world?

[@jeffreybower]

@@LolUGotBusted yep. If the people were wealthy they’d be higher priority

[@zekeolen]

Forgot to mention that Hansen's Disease is found in Armadillos, some cases have occurred in Texas. As coming in contact with infected animals.

[@kellydalstok8900]

Humans should stop encroaching on the habitats of other animals.

[@jacobg3490]

@@kellydalstok8900 so who do we kill?

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

I don't think "forgetting was the issue. . You could write a 200 page book on each of these diseases. The only way to make this video short and concise is to summarise and edit out stuff.

[@TheWhiteGyrfalcon]

I'm guessing malaria wasn't mentioned because it is well known and causes millions of preventable deaths each year. Also sleeping sickness not mentioned,a disease caused by infected flies

[@divinedesolation4825]

I’m severely allergic to the first antibiotic mentioned in this video, Azithromycin. I found this out the hard way when I went to the ER because I was running a high fever and the doctors gave me that antibiotic. I ended up back in the ER with anaphylaxis. I was young when it happened and only remember bits and pieces of that night, but apparently I scared my family half to death because the anaphylaxis didn’t start until we were already halfway home so we had to turn back because I was struggling to breathe and was breaking out in hives in the car. Do other medications work on that illness or is really just the one? I never really thought about it before, but what do you do for someone that needs a specific medicine to treat something, but they’re allergic to it?

[@sinisterminister6478]

Quite simple. Ongoing treatment generates more profit than cures. As we all know corporations aren't about helping people. They are about hoarding as much money as possible.

[@theflyingpenguini]

very odd that there's a move toward's calling it hansen's disease when throughout the rest of healthcare and disease there's a major push to have things NOT named after people

[@smileygimbel9445]

So exotic diseases developed in unsanitary living situations & unclean water (yes yes global warming blah blah blah)… so we need to focus on societal cleanliness and we need more GPs to assess the locales. Got it!

[@bbbenj]

Thanks

[@KraftyKreator]

I’m surprised TB wasn’t on the list.

[@Triggernyar]

@11:58 Snek fren!

[@Jtc00]

A great topic to watch when eating pancakes and ice cream. Great video hopefully we'll see some of these diseases disappear in the coming decades!

[@deborahbloom4624]

Oh my goodness! Dracunculis medinensis! I didn't even know it was still a thing. Learned about it in a parasitology class 40 years ago. I guess I thought they would have some how come up with a better way to get rid of it than low-tech stick removal. But hey. Whatever works.

[@thaddeuszukowski4633]

All well and good but what about undiagnosed cases? Don't they provides a resovor for later outbreaks?

[@robertfindley921]

So you're confirming what I already knew... these diseases haven't been eradicated because it's not profitable. Sometimes the profit motive isn't the best for mankind.

[@pierrecurie]

at least _someone_ is trying

[@htopherollem649]

way too often! it actually poses a threat to the future survivability of mankind

[@rylandrc]

It is profitable, just not over the short term.

[@davidbryden7904]

Worse, in some cases it's just not profitable enough! ✌️🌏☮️🕊

[@raztubes]

Thanks for the definition of confirmation bias.

[@peterwozy7971]

Why is your throat just above the top button of your shirt blurred out?

[@heathroush5343]

Another problem is that plenty of rich people are perfectly fine with poor dying.

[@kenneth9874]

Plenty of poor people are too

[@AutisticRebbetzen]

Why did you leave out the relationship between cichlids and schistosomiasis? All of the treatments and prevention measures you mention are useful tools, but those fish you showed in the video eat the snails that give people schisto. Lakes with shisto carrying snails have had dramatic drops in cichlid populations because of the pet trade. Poor economic conditions lead to desperation. Desperation leads to trying to make a buck to feed the family any way someone can. That leads to selling pretty fishies from the local lake. Fewer snail predators. More snails. More schistosomiasis. In addition to other treatment and prevention methods, responsible and efficient cichlid farms employing people who would otherwise be fishing them from lakes would help cut down on schistosomiasis and poverty at the same time without having to tell people they can't have their pretty fishies.

[@elizabethclaiborne6461]

We have plenty of folks in the USA with no access to dentistry; rotten teeth do all the bad things infectious disease does. We have a dozen aircraft carriers, but people dying from their teeth like it’s pre historic times.

[@goodun2974]

Bad teeth and gums and poor oral hygiene have a strong correlation with heart disease, and vice versa.

[@yellowflowerorangeflower5706]

Thx

[@Morbazan125]

Why haven’t we? Money. It’s always money.

[@emmastilwell759]

I'm confused as to why they've blurred his neck. If it's just a mic, why blur it? An offensive necklace? A bad tattoo?

[@jonatanpinadulucmusic]

Wow, I thought I was going to find things like Cholera, Zyka, Chikungunya and Dengue here. Interesting episode.

[@Tysror]

I want a world driven by good virtues and not money.

[@mcdonsco]

Haven't even watched the video yet but I can guess it's because there's no money in it.

[@rosemarymuthoni5853]

Dead right.

[@drdca8263]

“Haven’t watched the video yet” yeah that explains why you commented this.

[@michaelwoehl8822]

Money, medicine and greed.

[@thecelticforge]

I really wish you would have included VAD and Polio.

[@hyperdarkblue4862]

Gang! Gang!! (Happy to be here early, love the amazing content 🥰! Thank you for all you do) 💯❣️

[@Rorschach1024]

One problem is that leprosy is also endemic in Armadillos, so unless you wipe it out in wild animals youll never eradicate it

[@stardust2441]

Healthcare is one of those topics that radicalizies you the more you think about it

[@ChadWilson]

My take-away from this and how many of the other diseases not covered is that if we focused more resources on access to clean water, healthcare, and just plain good hygiene, most of these diseases would die off; a solution that targets problems more efficiently and effectively. Now, if we could get more first world folks to care about third world residents as much as their morning coffee from Starbucks...

[@lisam5744]

Agreed. I work with with a public health researchers that travels to parts of Africa several times a year for Onchoceriasis (river blindness) research. They've not only found that medicine is needed but teaching local people about how the black flies reproduce and changing their environment (in this case, removing overhanging vegetation from the river in their area) can help reduce infection. It's not always money, but it is always caring.

[@WaterZer0]

You're delusional for thinking these problems are the result of the average person "not caring enough". Governments actively exploit and ruin poorer countries using the IMF and embargoes. Stop virtue signaling in the comments.

[@Bimtavdesign]

" neglected tropical diseases" is my new band name

[@firestarter8202]

To the medical community, curing a patient means losing a customer.

[@andrewsang4688]

6:45 Schistosomiasis we need multiple solutions to fight this one: 1st, kill all snails

[@ghohenzollern]

So, theoretically, if we could get funding for a disease center that would cover most of the least covered human populations where would that disease center need to be?

[@jehmarxx]

Reminds me of that Kurzgesagt video.

[@jessstuart7495]

We missed our window of opportunity for eradicating SARS-CoV-2. Maybe next century.

[@scottabc72]

I was having no problem watching this over lunch until I got to '...the worms can obstruct the intestines...'

[@UncommonEyes]

What about bancroftian lymphatic filariasis and other filariasis spread by mosquitos? Fairly global incidences.

[@tomshady3530]

Not one mention of polio?

[@Gertyutz]

...and smallpox. I had vaccinations for both as a child.

[@woehr6]

@@Gertyutzthe video is about diseases we haven’t eradicated yet. We have almost got rid of polio and have got rid of small pox

[@abnormallylargemonkey9334]

Another reason why machine augmentations are cool

[@StonedtotheBones13]

5:50 yes, covid slowed everything down...But it also showed that we can be v good at contact tracing when we wanna be.

[@AWayOfLiving84]

You know who loves you when you are going through hard times. Guess who I got only🤗 Emma

[@johnthumble5154]

Lol is this like the herd immunity and "protecting from catching the vrus" like last time 😂

[@LynneMoen-po2is]

Words cannot describe how grateful I am. Thank you Dr Obaz for taking such great care of me. You have a special gift as a doctor and as a person. Thank you for giving me my life back!!

[@ugaladh]

At one point, Measles was on the list to be the second disease we could eradicate ( It's a human-only disease and we have a vaccine), and it got to the point in the US where most outbreaks were in immigrants or started with someone who traveled. However, world events with more immigration and refugees, and then the anti-vax movement has killed any hope of that soon happening.

[@new_romemusic4212]

Ah, worms. I needed more nightmares

[@michaelfagan9620]

How would you propose to eliminate diseases with wildlife hosts? For example, armadillos can carry Leprosy. Do we eradicate them too?

[@sithwolf8017]

Well rabies has been eliminated in all forms in most of Europe thanks to heavy vaccination of the animal population both domestic and wild.

[@michaelfagan9620]

@@sithwolf8017 Human rabies has been nearly eliminated, as in the US, but there are still and will always be wildlife reservoirs, primarily bats (unless we so drastically impoverish the ecosystems as to eliminate them).

[@sithwolf8017]

@@michaelfagan9620 nope. We use bait that's been given the rabies vaccine and administer it to the wildlife animals. In fact that's how Europe eradicated wildlife rabies.

[@michaelfagan9620]

@@sithwolf8017 does not eliminate bat rabies reservoirs. During the last four decades, more than 1100 bat rabies cases were reported in Europe. The majority of positive bats originated from Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Poland, counting for more than 90 percent of all positive bats recorded for this time period. Sporadic cases of bat rabies were also detected in Spain, Switzerland, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, the Ukraine, Russia, Norway and Finland. The great majority of all bat rabies cases is caused by EBLV-1. Although the level of bat rabies surveillance in Europe is still very heterogeneous, it can be assumed that bat rabies occurs all over Europe.

[@DemstarAus]

Nope lol. What a bonkers suggestion. Should we all stay indoors and never interact with anyone or anything?

[@arghleblarghle]

I appreciate how she isn't afraid to be negative OR positive! I feel like so many creators are all rave or dunk on anything and everything affordable. I appreciate the balance of her review!

[@sobreaver]

Pretty sure MONEY is one major reason that can answer that question.. >.>

[@gijsv8419]

What about Lepra

[@nicholaslewis8594]

0:25 Didn’t we also eradicate SARS?

[@kurtilein3]

That one never was endemic anywhere.

[@nicholaslewis8594]

Sure, but wouldn’t it still count since it was a disease that spread and our actions wiped it out?

[@kurtilein3]

@@nicholaslewis8594 It lasted just a few weeks if i remember correctly. The others are all century-old big players with big geographic range affecting large numbers of people.

[@Croz89]

It don't think it really counts if the disease just burns itself out pretty much by itself.

[@khills]

Nope. The OG SARS is still kicking around in its animal reservoir, so it could re-emerge in the human population at any time. To be eradicated, we would have to confirm the virus wasn’t lurking anywhere where it could re-emerge. Which is pretty tough to do when it’s a virus (or really, anything) that spans multiple species, unfortunately.

[@oshixxxx]

For the worms, Pyrvin following the description. This is in Finland.

[@filonin2]

...and then there was one. The Last SciShow channel. Kids don't count.

[@ikeekieeki]

awesome

[@Zappygunshot]

Yikes, just imagining a meter long guinea worm infecting a cat... *shivers*