The Most Horrible Parasite: Brain Eating Amoeba
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The Brain Eating Amoeba
A war has been going on for billions of years that breeds well armed monsters who struggle with other monsters for survival. Having no particular interest in us, most of them are relatively harmless, as our immune systems deal with their weapons handily. But there are exceptions.
Naegleria fowleri is an amoeba that not only has developed a deadly taste for human brains but is also a match for our defenses and a guest in dramatic headlines. What happens when this monster enters your body?
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Luckily I’m safe from this amoeba since I lack the brain cells for it to feed on.
Hey it's you
i can relate
relatable
You cant lose your brain, if you dont have a brain 😎😎😎
we should pray on little caesar's downfall
"This parasite lives in water and will eat your brain!" "Whelp, I guess I'm never swimming ever again." "Don't worry! You're more likely to drown than be killed by the parasite!" "The reasons to never swim again just keep piling up..."
Haha man!
"Nah come on! You're more likely to be eaten by a shark than to drown" "I don't think you're getting how this works"
@@Roody You're more likely to be crushed by a vending machine than eaten by a shark. Guess that's good motivation to give up snacks..
@@Roody I do not appreciate your joke because it is factually incorrect
@@IntelligentleMANgief it is probably incorrect, but correction aside, I wanted just to keep the combo going to have a laugh. So, thank you for your opinion/statement, but I don’t really care about it. 😅
had this amoeba once. poor fella died of hunger
😭
😂
took a min to realize
Don't get it sorry. Can someone explain?
@@Zourq he wanted to say that he doesn't have a brain, and so the bacteria won't have anything to eat
Huge shoutout to the cells in your body that literally use every strategy in the playbook to keep you alive. It's almost an entire sentience in its own right
They have to keep us alive because if we die they will all die with us
It's a whole other world.
The people who have succumbed to this amoeba had compromised immune systems as a result of the processed foods that they eat and the medications that they take. Healthy people all over the world are constantly exposed to this microorganism and nothing ever happens to them. It is only a handful of people who have weakened immune systems who should worry.
Your body is like a colonial organism. You are made up of trillions of individual cells just going about their life cycles. Eating, expelling waste, reacting to stimuli, replicating, and finally dying. In fact, in the time it has taken you to read this far millions or more of your own cells, tiny pices of you, have died and their remains are being delt with. They don't have sentience though so don't feel bad. Your cells are just organic, microscopic machines that just keep running as long as they have fuel to run on. So we are a massive collection of cells that are all doing their own thing and under that is the immune system which is like a kind of cellular secret police force, Big Brother of your biology. Patrolling and making certain that all your cells are obeying the rules and working together with their neighbors to advance the glorious union called The Body. Do not hoarde resources comrade, everything must be shared equally in the communist society of cells. What is that over there? A cell has decided that it will not work for the body and instead will look after it's own interests and the interests of its cellular "children". Biological capitalism that we call "cancer" which, if not delt with will mean the collapse and destruction of the entire colony. And while all of this is going on inside you and me and everyone else, we sit and wonder if we should take the final slice of pizza.
@glenngriffon8032 Communism is just an unattainable dream of the escapist who cannot accept the fact that people are not equal and can never be. The majority of people on this planet refuse to hold themselves accountable for their own actions. This is what makes communism impossible! Do you understand?
anxiety unlocked: never swim again
Remember me when this comment gets famous
Lol like they guy above me Arthur lol idc tho :)
bruh your here too?
Might be buying some nose plugs after this
In fresh water places and if you swallow it
oh hey, its my fear explained! This amoeba absolutely horrifies me. Even if our antibodies can wreck it. I just dont want holes in my chemoelectrical anxiety machine
Of course you are afraid of brain eating amoebas. That makes all of the sense.
OMG its Roanoke
Engineer gaming
@@thetruecyrusplayz1256 omg......and?
Helo :)
If you ever feel like giving up, remember your immune system military that does absolutely everything with pure intention of saving your life... with unwavering perseverance
The immune system does not save us, but itself)
@@hibahprice6887except our immune system is part of us, one facet of a whole that can't function if incomplete. Our immune system is US - macrophages, neutrophils, WBCs, these are OURs. We are saving ourselves.
@hibahprice6887 it has to save us to save itself
@@hibahprice6887immune system literally putting themselves on danger for us. And some of them are suicidal, killing the virus/bacteria by killing themselves.
@@hibahprice6887bro some of them literally destroyed themselves on an attempt to destroy the virus.
I watched your video a few days ago, and today I read on the news that a 30+ year old woman died from this amoeba in Taiwan (where I currently live). She went to an indoor pool during July 21st to July 24th, and on the 26th she started having headaches, neck stiffening, and fever. She passed away on August 1st.. it sent chills down my spine. I shared your video to my family and friends, but too bad it doesn't have Traditional Chinese subtitles. I sure hope one day someone could help translate your videos so more people can benefit from these useful information. Thank you very much for making this video, you did an excellent job! Thank you.
現在有中文CC字幕了，不知道是發生事件後才有還是原本就有？總之非常感謝大家幫忙翻譯～！🙏
應該是事後~因為我上週看是沒有的
I watched this vid before that, and then found out about the woman😅
我经常去野河游泳，好担心
It now has traditional Chinese subtitles
I love how they acknowledge the existential, _"thanks Kurzgesagt, now I'm terrifed of just being alive"_ into an animated being.
I knoooow
@@Call_Upon_YAH Hey! did you know that if Jesus was a real person, he was actually most likely a buddhist? Yeah, reality. It's a thing.
@@apocalypseap wait, what?
@@apocalypseap I mean, the real-life counterpart was Jewish and did teachings, and then his followers made the religion of Christianity. Now, back to the subject of DREAD.
Yeah, I love that too.
As someone with huge-ass nostrils who always gets water all over the insides of my cavity whenever I swim, thanks for this. Guess I'll never swim again.
Or if you DO swim, be really really paranoid about headaches a week or so later ?
Same. Some things You prefer to don’t know
Go in a pool not a lake and u should be fine
Or get one of those nose cap sort of things
da ocean
If you don’t feel loved just remember your immune system will do everything it can to protect you
My friends father just died from this. A few days ago my friends father died shortly after swimming in lake LBJ in Texas. It was originally diagnosed as meningitis until the doctors got the full detail.
They named a lake after Lyndon B Johnson?
Swim=death☠️
Kurzgesagt: "You're immune to every disease" Also Kurzgesagt: "Not this one lol"
Well its an amoeba not a bacteria or virus
@@dashfire3185 But the immune system can attack an amoeba as well. We have defenses against larger intruders like parasites too, not only against bacteria or virus. If anything, one of the main reasons this disease is so deadly is the immune system's reaction itself, the video does mention the inflammation in the brain. That's us triggering it, not the amoeba. The real problem is that our immune response is very strong and destructive and can harm us as well. Now, harm in non vital areas of the body is fine, the cells will regenerate and we'll live on as if nothing ever happened. Harm in our most important areas, like the brain, heart, yeah, that's another story, and it can kill us probably even more easily than the disease itself.
@@dashfire3185 still a disease
Well yes but actually no because the antibodies you have against it get eaten or destroyed once it's in its eating phase (I think that's how it is)
It's not a disease
I love how they finally addressed the existential dread that their videos can cause and turned it into marketing
Yep, they know their audience. What’s that quote? “Horror stories don’t tell kids monsters exist. Kids already know that. Stories tell kids monsters can be beaten.” Something like that.
Sounds like they are running for President
I hate it
Didn't they address it with that Optimistic Nihilism video?
Existential Dread is why I'm here.
I love how they just like say your gonna die and then just say "nah it probably fine"
i’m amazed by the quality and clarity of your explanations!
For anyone still worried, they specified that the amoeba can only exist in *dirty* waters. Just don't jump into some random lake or a pool that isn't cleaned out regularly and you're fine. You're not likely to splash around in a spa since you're supposed to be relaxing, not going nuts, and when they say 'high in your nose' they MEAN high in your nose. As in, you can feel it in the bottom of your eyes kind of high. And that's a serious problem all on its own since that probably means you've inhaled some water into your lungs and you've got a DIFFERENT situation going on.
What about summer camp lakes?
Basically, avoid Florida.
@@MikeAJGriffin Yet another reason to avoid Florida.
People like you are the reason i sleep sound at night
@@null1ffy798 I read your reply wrong at first, I thought you wrote “I sleep around at night” totally changed the intended meaning. I do agree though that OP has provided quite a bit of relief.
I love how Kurzgesagt has embraced the existential dread that accompanies most of their videos
They didn't have to embrace it at all. It is omnipresent. You are no more or less in existential crisis now than at any other point in your life. And it shall remain that way all the way to your end. Literally everything is trying to kill you. That is your life, that is life for all humans, it is a constant; and it will never stop.
@@danielduncan6806 - or, you know, it is really unlikely to die of anything other than cancer (and even that not untimely for the most part) if you aren’t living a dangerous lifestyle and keep your eyes up in traffic.
@@danielduncan6806 or, yknow, you can live life not constantly thinking about depressing shit and what could go wrong, assuming that you dont have a mental health disorder that impacts your ability to do that
@@danielduncan6806 You could also look at it as even with trillions of microscopic and macroscopic enemies, humans still manage to enjoy their lives and survive
They embraced the memes
Just found this channel and I'm already soo in loveee with it!! Thank you for your hardwork in making this video!! Big applause👏
Rip your free time
This is one of my favorite info chanals and should be shown at school cuz this is usefull I used to watch it when I was a kid and still do keep up the amazing work and hope ur channel will keep informing us well :D
Kurz: It's overhyped Kurz: [explains exactly why it's so deadly and that there's no cure, ending on a jumpscare]
"oh but don't worry, it barely happens to anyone!" They said, knowing fully well that every pesron watching the video is gonna think "but what if i'm one of those people?"
Also Kurtz: Explains why its overhyped in that there have only been ~400 documented cases since the early part of the 20th century.
Yes yes indeed existential crisis
I have a high school classmate who was diagnosed with this brain eater a few years ago. He was still alive well despite occasional movement disorders. But I am not sure if he would ever be fully cured.
@@lumanliu8457 I love how there's at least two people who "knows" someone who got infected by this and commented in that sense. With less than 350 cases worldwide in the last 90 years, this is HIGHLY improbable.
This is the most aesthetically pleasing horror story I've ever seen. Truly a masterpiece of psychological horror.
And it’s real : )
@@demon-spawnanimations5230 "based on a true story"
@@501Magnum "is a true story"
Source: Trust me bro.
@@pauldacon828 I think "Source: Kurzgesagt" is more than acceptable.
The quality of content is just amazing Thanks to the channel for this amazing information
had no idea that a microscopic world war could be going on in my brain right now
lolll
Jesus there’s something frightening about Kurtzgesagt animating “true” humans especially for this video. And holy hell the quality everywhere, anxiety inducing? Yes. Wonderful? Also yes!
Agreed, the humans here are uncanny
*holy hell ?? 😂
@@gonkdroid8279 What? They look awesome! More realistic humans!!!
Honestly I love the humans 😂
@uNnHkP8mza who cares about that the content was amazing, i'm still tripping about what i just saw, the war between microbes is just.. how they kill each other by different methods, i mean, what's the limit there? these creatures seem at least as conscious as insects, the solutions applied from our bodies seem like some you would arrive by conscious thinking about how to solve that issue if you could control different parameters as your body temperature at will, which you can with some effort as proved by wim hoff, my guess is if we would watch these microworlds millions and millions of times more than what we do we'd probably see some spectacular events happen that'd prove beyond doubt the improvisational nature of all biology, probably some would be in that 3% of the infections in which the parasite is defeated once in the brain, if i understood correctly, and what we would see perhaps be the first time a 'new move' is being 'invented' by some single immune cell or bacteria
Kurzgegast animation becomes more and more complex, especially the humans. They have come so far.
ikr? the animation is just mwah
His proclivity to explore is that of an ancient explorer from a principality from circa bce. Yet his tendency of benevolence is that of an ancient explorer from a municipality from circa ad. Nonetheless shall your creative prowess prosper and the tides of history always in your favor.
@Mishan 🅥 🧢
@@Caesar.X 💋
Yees
*What a good and beautiful way to show knowledge through animation, keep making videos like this!* 👍🏻
By far the best explanation and animation to show what's going on... if every medical issue was explained this way I would watch everyone !
Ah sweet, natural horrors beyond my comprehension
you here?
Yoo joe
IDK why, but i forgot where i coped " kurzgesagt video on the brain eating amoeba" from and it's only been an hour.. Anyways,hi stranger with a verified mark
Joe
any new doubling internet speed hack?
as someone who grew up fearing brain-eating amoeba, my anxieties are still there.
I remember I thought I had it. I had a banging headache for days after going to the lake. I was so stressed, I didn’t eat for a week. Anything I tried eating, I’d vomit out of stress. It was awful
@@rameygardner4782 maybe you had it, but your body somehow won the battle.
You gonna die from your anxiety before the amoeba get you
@@swamidude2214 idk man, the brain amoeba wouldn't have much to eat. I only contain around 6 brain cells.
@@rameygardner4782 fr same
I like how your videos are like an action movie. Especially the dramatic music.
Such I inspirational video and informative thank you very much 😂❤
*Amoeba enters:* "Hey, where's the brain? It should be here. I'm starving." *Hears the host's voice from the outside:* "And that's why the Earth is flat, folks. NASA and the government are lying." Amoeba: "Ohh, I see. How do I get out of here?"
lol
@@ObeseGorilla229 No its a pyramid
Hahaha
@@ujjwal2473 Yall, it's a doughnut 🍩 😒
The earth isn't even real, it's all a simulation
I really appreciate this channel spreading awareness. My family had to go through the ordeal of losing an 11 y/o girl from this. Contracted in the Brazos river in Texas. It was a very frightening event and since then we've tried to educate more people. Especially living in a lake town, we hand out free nose plugs and pamphlets. All back by an organization "Kyle cares Amoeba Awareness".
I am so sorry to hear that... May her soul rest in peace
RIP
RIP, I am so sorry to hear this. I am also now terrified of this since I live next to brazos river. I was so shocked to read your comment.
Well, she’s one of 300 people who got it. Condolences
I am so sorry for your loss, although PAM is rare it is such a horrible disease to witness a loved one go through. I'm a microbiology student in university and we talked about this particular amoeba. There has been some fear that with climate change and with increasingly extreme summers, bodies of freshwater could become warmer and better environments for Naegleria fowleri. Although this problem is thankfully rare, a healthy amount of caution is so important.
This is so informative!!! Fantastic reporting; I love this kind of content! The graphics were amazing If scary!🌻🌼🐝
Probably I’m favorite video from you guys the music was perfect and eerie keep it up 😁👍🏾
These animations, the 3-d models, the visual storytelling for infection, even the little existential dread skit just to advertise their merch, this is honestly one of the best channels on KZhead. Y’all deserve all the support and recognition ❤️❤️
I don’t think they use 3D models at all, all the more impressive
@@crep1544 They do, it's just masterfully textured and shaded, so they fit the rest of them perfectly. That's the paradox of any 3D work - it's only good when you don't notice it's 3D...
@@WwZa7 Even better
@@WwZa7 those super close ups of the face are made in after effects 100%
YES FINALLY A NEW VIDEO
So I ordered a poster and while being shipped it got all crumpled and destroyed, so I asked for a new one. When you sent it back you put so much care into your packaging to make sure it wasn’t damaged. I just would like to say thank you for caring so much about your fans!
@eioshen boboi Seriously doubt that it's the disease detailed in the video
@@jamozmynamoz6516 probably
@@jamozmynamoz6516 he's alive so probably a average headache
@eioshen boboi And you felt it necessary to reply to a comment not related to the disease, why? Because you want attention?
@@drakebalzer2098 I saw a comment in the comment section about the same thing the person said but extended. I think @eioshen boboi copied a part of it and replied it to this comment for some reason. The original comment said *I had a mysterious brain injury about 5 years ago I got while in rural Mexico, that I believe was due to using a neti pot with warm tap water. I was in pretty bad shape for several* years, and recovery was far slower than I expected. The damage showed up on the MRI, and the attending neurologist believed it was from a pathogen like this. I'm still not 100%, probably about 90% though, which is far more than I thought I'd recover just a few years ago.
I love the animation, great for visual learners. I would definitely use these videos to educate my children if i ever have them.
This video is very helpful. I'm a junior high school student in Japan, but I thought I would learn more English and science because of this. Thank you😊
Kurzgesagt: “It’s not evil” Also Kurzgesagt: *Shows it as literally the creature from Carrion*
who said Carrion is evil?
@@originalprecursor the way I play it is evil as fuck
@@manwhatdoiputhere as it should be
@@originalprecursor you are forced to play evil
@@originalprecursor Villains of carrion are the scientists
When you think about it, your cells and this amoeba isn't aware of themselves but they actually fight wars like a tower defense game.. Pretty surreal.
You should watch this channel's video called 'Emergence.' It explains how large amount of unconscious beings work together ultimately forming consciousness.
They are "aware "of their surroundings. Just think about it and extrapolate a bit ,we may be part of a cosmic body that is 'super conscious'
Thats a really good idea for a tower defense game
@@softan "They react to their surroundings" Exactly . What do you think your sensory organs are doing ? at the cellular level things are chemical in nature .What you call the 'awareness' of an individual is a cumulative /emergent phenomenon . Or else you should be able to define what an 'awareness' is without going full metaphysics .
Immune System: "Stop this, amoeba! I have the high ground!" Naegleria fowleri: "You underestimate my power!"
Perfect video to watch right before scuba diving
Lmaooooo
I love your channel.its very informative and the animation induces to learn more ❤....
I had a friend's mom scare the crap out of me with this amoeba. Went swimming in a popular lake, and my friend's mom warned us not to get water in our ears or nose. Of course, us being 11, we got water in our ears while trying not to. Panicked and told her mom and she said, "Well, we will see if you live in a week." So for that whole week I was in constant panick of dying.
Why would she do that to a little kid? The chance of all this happening is so remotely small that it's silly to even worry about it
That’s Mama Soprano level of narcissism
A for atrocious parenting.
@@blarfroer8066 until he suddenly dies. Whoops!
I'm in panic without doing any of this
I know someone who's girlfriend died from this, it's no joke I'll never forget his words. "To see someone go from perfectly functional and happy go to the level of dementia and worse in the course of 3 days..."
Terrible. I'm sorry for him
That's so sad.. :(
I doubt it very much
@@Gooner184 e
@@Gooner184 You doubt...what?
There was an outbreak in Czech republic because of a pool in Ústí nad Labem in the sixties. During those three years 16 people died because of this amoeba. I only remember it because i study biology at uni and we talked about this and ot seemed so surreal
7:55 I kinda like that record scratch SFX (Though it sounds like a zipper)
You guys have grown so freaking much, while horrifying, the quality of the education and cinematography of this video was freaking amazing
I loved the cute animation near the end. Dread was kinda spooky until it started speaking. It was adorable. And the bird excited about all the knowledge available to learn... xD
yeah its so good and very easy to understand
Right? It really shows in this particular video, I feel. I'm glad they're able to do their thing!
Rampant amongst US politics
Ok don't get a hard-on it's only a growing channel so calm down
WOAH the narrator officially got a bird!! Now we know what he really looks like! This last part of the video was so different that what kurzgesagt normally does, and it really cought me off guard, but in a really good way. Thanks for entertaining us again
I don't think that was the narrator, just the same person voicing a different character (the way they talk is different, after all)
@@geli95us you just contradicted yourself
@@____Carnage____ no he didn’t lmao
The narrator is a smol red birb, he shows up in an earlier video called How to Kurzgesagt
9:04 Could you not please 😂😂
One of my neighbors had just graduated high school from Northbrook in Houston. He was working a summer lifeguarding job for the YMCA out at a camp. He dove into the water and contracted this. He was gone a 2 weeks later. Absolutely horrible.
i was at high risk for getting this when I went to the natural hot springs in eastern california! I went to the ER after and made a plan for how to get treatment ASAP and try to be one of the 5 people who survived it.
I remember how in first year of my university, when we were studying amebae, my professor made a presentation specifically about this ameba because a good friend of hers died from it after swimming in a lake. I still think about it a lot
Shit I'm cancelling my swimming today!
@@AyushSharma-vz6eg yeah I'm never ever swimming on hot water ever again I'm going cold
Be aware that the chances of this are EXTREMELY LOW. Do not take my word on this, but the chances of it are below 1%.
When i swim in lakes im making sure its ice cold
@@echstatistic nah bruh im adding 10 pack of ice in it
My sister died to this, the last thing I saw of here was just being a slack-jawed body on the gurner that didn’t even look alive after taking a small dive into a local hot spring. I was young at the time and Inside Out came at the same time this happened. I remember that because I couldn’t be there at the hospital anymore and a friend of the family took me to that instead. I have never cried so hard in my life, especially during the imaginary friend forgetting scene. Despite how rare it is, it’s still awful to experience.
I am so sorry for your loss. That is such a horrible thing to happen. May she rest in peace.
I’m sorry man, I hope you’re alright knowings she’s alright now
I wonder if that friend knew what Inside Out was going to be like. That's almost beautiful although it may not have been pleasant. I think it's one of the best kids films.
FAKE!!
that's awful, I'm so sorry you had to go through watching this.
I can not get over how much i love the fact they made existential crisis a character in a way It actually got a good laugh outta me even though im constantly worrying about the unkown
This is such a cool way of explaining a deadly disease. Great Job!
What is great job ? Here is telling you like only dead things did you want to die or not it look like you want die or not you want to die you crazy you unlucky
@@user-yg6uf5ed1l Get better at English then come back to this comment and you will understand it.
Friend of a friend got one of these when I was in college. She'd just gone swimming in a river with some friends, then over the next few days she started to feel feverish, seemed to be dehydrated no matter how much she drank, started to forget things, and was totally incoherent by the time they got her to the hospital. Two days after being admitted, she was gone. Crazy
H-Holy shit... My condolences, that's terrifying.
Really sad and enraging these things are able to ruin someone’s life, only cure we have is to spread awareness by sharing this vid. RIP
As Kurg said, naegleriasis (a.k.a. primary amoebic encephalitis) is EXCEPTIONALLY rare, as A LOT of variables have to go perfectly right for you to contract the disease, but if you do have the misfortune of getting it, you are pretty much guaranteed death within a few days to two weeks even with aggressive, early treatment. Scary to think about. Season 2 of House featured a naegleriasis infection that killed a cop and should have killed Foreman, although it's mode of transmission (aerosolization via a misting spray for marijuana said cop was growing) is unheard of and frankly all but impossible. Frankly, Foreman not only surviving after showing symptoms, but having no neurological issues once cured, is nothing short of miraculous.
@@DerpASherpa117 because most don't know what encephalitis is, in case you're wondering it means swelling of the brain
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I remember when I was a kid growing up in Florida that in ponds, there were often signs that said not to put your head under the water because of amoeba. I always wonder why. Now, I'll never question them again.
Yup, a girl in my hometown in FL, Courtney Nash, died to an amoeba. Pretty rare and was surprised to see a video on this.
Well it just got more weird because my first name is Nash.
And there’s a street in close by in the town just over called Nash.
@@galacticgalaxyonezerone7235 It's a sign, Nash. Stay out of the water.
@@VigilVII r/thathappened
I clicked the video because I wanted to know more about this brain-eating amoeba I've been hearing about - glad to know that infections for it are rare!
Why am I so emotionally invested in these animated cell warriors and villians I love you kurgesagt
Kurzgesagt explaining 2 things very effectively: 1) I can die of almost anything, even a dip in the pool 2) Considering the size of the universe, time and space, I don't even matter Yep, this is exactly what I needed at 1:00 AM But once again, what a fantastic video, thank you so much, guys.
I couldn't have said it better
So true. BRB, quitting my job
I just think about how death is a part of life, the fact that it can happen to anyone, so everyone is living in spite of that, and then how if the universe is indifferent, it isn't actively hostile nor impeding, just more nature.
Wow it's actually 1:am as I am writing this in my Timezone
@Don't click profile photo I am warning u before u regret. Don't click his profile photo.
The animations in this one were absolutely stunning (and so was the brain eating disease but that’s a different type of stunning) good job Kurzgesagt
His proclivity to explore is that of an ancient explorer from a principality from circa bce. Yet his tendency of benevolence is that of an ancient explorer from a municipality from circa ad. Nonetheless shall your creative prowess prosper and the tides of history always in your favor.
@@TheYafaShow aaaaaaand your a bot. Or you copy paste like the topic here
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@Mishan 🅥 *BAD CONTENT**
@Mishan 🅥 bot
I once read a study, a while back, that found that Colloidal Silver could be used as a way to help prevent fatality, alongside other treatments. I'm sure it's much easier to treat then we realize, but since the infection rate is so rare, there's no way to try out all kinds of other treatments.
I'm never swimming, brushing my teeth, drinking water, showering, and washing my face ever again. I'M SCARED. I WISH I NEVER SAW THIS TO THE END AAHHH
It is only in dirty water so you are fine
it's subtle, but 0:31 is such a creative scene. Kurzgesagt has improved with cinematography as well as education
THAT'S WHAT IM SAYING DUDE 10/10
I actually hoping to see a comment like this
yes! the production and quality is so captivating
YES I SAW THAT TOO!
Not tryna to hate but what exactly was subtle?
Well, that was horrifying. a small microbe that we interact with pretty often and have little trouble with is basically unstoppable if it gets up your nose, and you won't notice anything wrong until its way too late.........thank god this is rare.
until China weaponizes it
Swimming in the winter would be a lot more common
The rarity and severity of it might be co-related.
God is the one who makes it
If you think that's horrifying, look at sudden cardiac death
Someone in my distant family died because of this Amoeba. He was only 24 years old. One day he went for swimming at the nearby pool. Started having headaches the next day and in 3 days he was unconscious on ventilators. He died in 7-8 days. Was the only son of his parents. It was very tragic
Magnificent!! Wondeful job!!
I remember studying for the first time about this amoeba in my Parasitology classes when i was in Med school, and to this day is probably the most frightening microrganism i had read about, it´s just equally concerning the possibility of catching it or having to treat someone with that 93-97 % of fatality. Thankfully in my country this particular amoeba it´s almost immposible to find but in some other countries like the US cases are known to be present. Thanks kurzgesagt for another awesome video, creating awereness, and fuelling nightmares :)
And ur country iiiis?
@@Ugh718 communism is bad
@@Ugh718 I mean if I had to take a wild guess I'd assume somewhere cold, possibly north of Europe?
Please let me know what country you reside in, I gotta move there 😭
Honestly would probably rather have this than rabies. I'd prefer neither tho.
I absolutely love how you can see the animation quality change and improve as you go along the Kurzgesagt video timeline. It means that we're supporting them well enough for them to be able to afford to take more time to put more effort into higher quality videos. Keep it up guys, we gotta keep them going
the subtle changes in their artstyle and the addition of detailed animated humans is really impressive, they've come a long way
I bought one of the deep sea posters, they are really nice
My thought exactly! every video is better than the other
completely unrelated to the actual point of the video but literally that dude they were animating the whole time (the one who got the amoeba idk) is so prettyyyyyyy like at 7:33 made me wish I could animate like that bc they look so good
Thanks my ocd needed this! My friends are going to be so pissed when I don’t want to go do anything that involves being in the water
ts is so real, i also have ocd and that shit can be absolutely debilitating.
Daily dose of existential dread! Thank you Kurzgesagt.
More like a monthly dose
@@cubism_2 True
@@cubism_2 Accurate
Lmao
It's that time of the month again
9:34 This is a historical moment never seen before in history. The narrator finally expresses the emotion of happiness
Truly a legendary moment 🥹
@Jimmy Jim Bonnyismydoggy does too.
it never happens ye
for real.. that's so cool
This video has not done enough to dissuade me out of my existential dread
The song/track on this video sounds amazing ❤❤
so basically this amoeba is the embodiment of "Jokes on you i am into that shit"
underrated comment
Pretty much I'm really pursuing a career as a comedian.
Goddamn extremophiles
Yes😂
Probably better as a meme Body(more like immune system): Oh no! We have an unidentified disease,Ramp up the temperature! The unidentified disease A.K.A Amoeba: Jokes on you i am into that shit Though this is probably better Immune system: Ramp up the temps! We have amoeba Amoebae: jokes on you i am into that shit
Steve Taylor portrayed as a cute bird is the most wonderful thing I've seen in a while. It almost has a lip sync, I rejoiced as soon as I saw it. Definitely a cool addition!
ok government (thanks for the high quality animation!) we need another fake vaccine for this problem too.......4 or 8 doses
I think this cute bird portrays the viewer, not the narrator. Steve Taylor is a round red bird, accompanied by smaller red birbs, he can be seen at 10:03 .
@@hlibushok actually its the dark purple birb as seen in various plushie designs and seen in videos past the rest of the birbs are the team and various scientists that work together
@@talkinggallade5796 Just watch the "How to Kurzgesagt" video. The dark purple birb you're saying about, is probably the Duck, and the Duck is just a mascot.
That was amazing! Better than 99% of movies nowadays! Damnnn you tell a good story!
now this is why you should allways hold your nose when jumping into any kind of pool / ocean
There’s a guy in my hometown who had this amoeba 🦠 and survived. Though it chowed a bit of his brain and left him blind on one eye. His one eye looks all white now.
How did that physical change happen in the eye by effecting the brain?
Only four people have survived this which one is the guy in ur hometown?
@@xxan84 Because your eyes are directly connected to your brain obviously, as is your whole brain through all your veins or stems as I think of them, we are all jellyfish (first evolution of amoebas) evolved in different ways and with titan bodies grown and wrapped around us like in attack titan.
@@bigdawgbignuts5006 Well they have to be somewhere don't they lol, I know some people bullshit but most people are being honest pretty much all the time like you probably are
@@BlazeCon97 You are joking right?
Amoeba thrives in heat Me: bring in the ice water
Going to hot springs is a very popular thing to do with friends where I live. Thanks for the phobia.
So there's a reason I didn't ask too many questions when I was taken in at the neurological department of my local hospital a few years back. I myself had just come down with a form of Lyme's Disease that lives in the fluids surrounding your brain and attacks the nervous system (great fun, lots of headache and fatigue for about a month and then suddenly half your face is paralyzed), just because I got bit by a minuscule infected arthropod while celebrating my birthday picnicking in the park. I learned that in the next room over was a guy who went swimming one day and ended up in the intensive care ward for about a week on life support because he was paralyzed from head to toe and so couldn't breathe and hardly pump his own blood. At that point I decided I'd try to avoid learning about too many neurological diseases because there's a terrifying amount of them, there's basically nothing you can do to stop them, and holy crap the effects are always _extreme._
real life spider man result
@@spacedued4921 lol
how are you doing now?
Fortunately, we do have a cure for rabies, which is also a neurological disease. The way that it's treated is a lot different compared to other diseases. You see, rabies has a fairly large "incubation" period. You become infected with rabies when an infected mammal bites you and passes it to you through their saliva. At that point, the virus stays inside of the afflicted tissue - be it the arm, leg, ect. The virus can't do anything outside of your brain, so it has to multiply and reach your brain through your nervous tissue, which can take days, weeks... in rare occasions, years. If the virus is not in the brain, it is harmless. Once it reaches the brain, it is 100% fatal for the host. The way rabies is cured is through a rabies vaccine... after the host is infected! This is in contrast to other vaccines, in which they're given before any infection takes place. But with the vaccine, if the host takes the vaccine before rabies reaches the brain... it is 100% curable. So, basically rabies is either 100% fatal or 100% curable.
From what I've noticed, neurological parasites are very vulnerable outside of the brain and can't do anything until they reach it, where the journey to the brain usually takes days. This means that we could very likely create cures for these diseases after somebody is exposed like with rabies, which would be extremely safe given the parasites literally cannot do anything to your body if they're not in your brain. It's important to note however that certain people who are within constant contact with animals (such as veterinarians) are given rabies vaccines prior to any infection to protect them. This means we could probably also give vaccines for common neurological diseases before any contact with the pathogen occurs, if we figure out how to make vaccines for them.
Seriously, how is it that no one is talking about how exponentially have the videos' animation quality improved in the last couple of months? Shoutout to the Kurzgesagt's animators' team.
The shot with the moths going towards the lamp really wowed me. The perspective and motion of the moth in the foreground is pretty impressive.
they've started using 3d models which actually look great with the usual style, way better than i expected they would
That's what I thought
been a while since I've seen a vid, instantly recognized the improvement, especially In the boy's water scenes
Even the production quality has gone up. The thrilling music throughout makes it so cinematic and epic
My mum told me when I was younger to not go to the pool and other water substances like river, lake and etc. Now because of this video I see why she told me this and I am still greateful for that.
This video is very helpful for me about health
My supervisor, a young neurosurgeon just in his 30s , passed away due to this . I still remember we all had a pizza party just a day before and the next day he was brought in the ER with seizures. His MRI Brain was so haunting to see .
Could you perhaps describe the brain MRI? Just asking, not compulsory to answer.
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Damn
F rest in pepperoni 🦍
Im so sorry for all you had to see
Lost my classmate to this, poor dude was not even 21 when he died. He had graduated early and was honestly one of the most fit person I know.
sorry about that, but wtf? That’s ridiculously unlucky
@Mishan 🅥 🗿
RIP dude had negative luck
I’m sorry for your loss dude.
@@OneFinalAutumn i feel bad for him, life is strange too
the way my fear of getting water inside my nose has finally gotten a proper reason why i fear of it exactly there's also such method as using salty sea water for your runny nose so i'm not willing to do it anymore
6:15 the beat gets sick lol, its a banger
If you look up photos of Naegleria fowleri, it looks like a screaming clown.
Now you comment about it, it does look like a clown when I searched in Google images 😲
Possum!? You here!?
What kind of scary-ass clowns came to your birthday?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Looked it up, you're wrong. It looks like the scream
You guys had me panicking about my tropical vacation next year. This was the scariest thing I've watched on KZhead! Glad it's not as common as you were making it seem at the start of the episode!
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It said ‘overhyped’ for a reason!
@Mishan 🅥 you ain’t even a youtuber or actively make videos
@Mishan 🅥 You don't.
You’ve just open a new anxiety that now I have…..I need a therapist.
The animation in this video is very much improved from the older videos, very cool
This featured in a major plot arc of House, M.D. when one of the doctors contracted nigleria while investigating the source of the amoeba. Turns out it came from the rainwater tank being used to water a cannabis grow. Really a terrifying illness (and obscure enough for a mystery).
I was ready to bet my house that someone would make a comment about drhouse.... So damn predictable
the "pain with no relief" part was particularly terrifying
Did he die?
@@legitpancake4276 the patient died, foreman was saved but had a brain biopsy, and was injured
Why does it have to sound like the name of my country, Nigeria? I don't like that. We have enough issues here adding a horrifying amoeba to it makes it even more horrifying. Please, they should look for another medical name for it.
Just imagine how destructive this thing must be that it has to grow extra mouths just so it can eat more brains.
Zombie
@@axis367 No..?
In the intro, the ape is always holding a different item, which is related to the chosen subject. One of the many easter eggs that makes Kurzgesagt videos even more enjoyable that their already claimed status.
I once got one of these. Poor fella died of hunger.
Bro 💀
that took me like, 20 seconds to realize💀
I guess that's one upside to being a conservitave.
@@thefirstcurse3123nah, if the amoeba died of starvation, he's probably from California
@@mwbgaming28 That's another likely outcome yes.