How Did London's Bubonic Plague Epidemic End? | The Great Plague | Part 3
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355 years before COVID 19 took over the world, another pandemic swept through Britain. The Great Plague of 1665 killed 100,000 in London, 25% of the population, and a further 100,000 in the rest of the country.
In the finale of this three part series, we learn about the village of Eyam in Derbyshire, revealing the heroic story of self-sacrifice that saw this village of 700 lock themselves in, to try and stop the disease spreading to surrounding towns. We also take a look at treating the plague and it's symptoms. While some methods for controlling the spread of the plague were actually successful, some methods of treatment for the plague probably caused more harm than good.
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to hear the mother loosing her entire family in just 11 days hurts me so much since i'm a father of 4 children myself😓😭💔
How is there still people in the comment sections of these videos comparing Covid to this type of horrific event. 50% mortality rate vs 0.01%
@mynamedoesntmatter8652
6 ай бұрын
It’s always the same thing: ignorance. People are seemingly proud to maintain that status (for some reason that I’ll never understand).
this disease becomes even scarier when you realise that it thrives in the lymph nodes, which are literally the parts of the body meant to intercept and neutralise pathogens,
@airsickspace9272
Жыл бұрын
Bubonic form is also the less deadly form
@bebecatanzaro9362
Жыл бұрын
And the lymphatic system is like a superhighway to the rest of the body
@politecat9183
Жыл бұрын
@@bebecatanzaro9362 i thought the lymph nodes are like the security checkpoints cuz they have lots of wbcs and macrophages on guard to neutralise pathogens? is that incorrect? if yes then pls tell me, im still just a student and i may have misinterpreted it
@bebecatanzaro9362
Жыл бұрын
@@politecat9183 I’m certain that you’re correct. I provided my feeble understanding of the lymphatic system based on my late husband’s renal cancer. Once it infiltrated his chest/lungs, that was it. The disease gets into the lymph nodes. I wish you nothing but the best for your future in medicine 💕
@politecat9183
Жыл бұрын
@@bebecatanzaro9362 I'm really sorry for your loss, I hope you are doing ok, its tough to lose a loved one
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It's just unbelievably sad to think of a woman, burying her husband and her children. What, then. And, not enough can be said for the people of Eyam - for their courage and their humanity. Fascinating documentary.
@Apollo1011
Жыл бұрын
There were two examples in the film about the wife the only survivor in the family. I wondered if the mothers had more immunity somehow.
@michellelambert8729
Жыл бұрын
@@Apollo1011 She probably had a natural immunity. Some people did survive this plague because their cells didn't have a portal through which it could enter. These people would have to have had 2 parents with the same thing. If you only had one immune parent you might survive or not.
Good to see Raksha got another gig, loved her work on Time Team.
Great documentary 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Very well done, but a small thing: Defoe wrote his famous Journal of a Plague Year some 40 or so years after the event. Pepys lived through it.
Flea treatment that works I think is a great takeaway that and lime being bacteriostatic
Is scary that some of these places still stand. So much history/death. I wonder if deep deep down on the ground where the church is the plague still there...
@beccapeck5102
10 ай бұрын
Sure it is. People still contract the plague today. What's the difference? We treat it with antibiotics.
@kellyshomemadekitchen
10 ай бұрын
Scary thought but very possible!
The English sure know how to make great documentaries.
I just find it fascinating that doctors learned from experience and had some methods to combat the plague.
Great documentary!
Wondering what the daily death count is before plague happened?
@kricketlangendoerfer8387
11 ай бұрын
Would be easy to find out w COVID19. Then do a hypothesis for 1665. 🐱🐱
Humans never change. notice the town leader sent his kids and wife away BEFORE closing the town.
wow..first viewer..love frm india
Fire and brimstone, the cure to pestilence. Odd how such an old practice of whitewashing (limestone and water has a ph 12.5) actually did have a proven effect on the bacteria. So ultimately many practices of the rich actually helped them to stop the spread of disease and catching the disease themselves.
This plague reminds me of Death himself. The shadow who wielded the scythe and brings the dead people to the afterlife judgement. You know who that is, right?
@skate103
Жыл бұрын
Trump?
@nikkidodd2305
10 ай бұрын
@@skate103 biden?
Reminds me of my Cities Skylines city later in the game when everyone dies at once and the economy budget collapses as a result and no one else moves in to replace them due to corpses everywhere.
Very fascinating series, particularly in light of the fact that we've gone through a pandemic, ourselves. Was Eams the place where the genetic mutation that provided degrees of immunity to the Plague discovered?
@fuckthosekids
Жыл бұрын
Scamdemic lol
@ana_stefana
10 ай бұрын
Eyam was the village. There is an interesting documentary on the subject kzread.info/dash/bejne/gGyuqNybl8nNh9o.html
@CrueMagnon
7 ай бұрын
Yes. I was called 'Delta 32'
amigo! what a professional .see you later, =)
One year before the Great Fire??
It's been absolutely known fact the fleas on rats spread to the bottom plague that's been known for centuries he didn't discover anything
@alidapurdy
Жыл бұрын
If you watch the first 2, you realize that it was HUMAN fleas and HUMAN body lice. Not rats and their fleas.
SOAKING IN SEAWATER AND HORSE URINE, SULFUR AND POTASH.
This is basically what a *real* pandemic looks like....
@Perceptionreflection
Жыл бұрын
Imagine if we'd all stayed inside. Millions more people would be alive today. Over a million Americans...
@jaimetrevino9244
Жыл бұрын
@@Perceptionreflection wow. This far into it and you still don't get it.
@Perceptionreflection
Жыл бұрын
@@jaimetrevino9244 What's not to get? Millions are dead. Had we not politicized the pandemic here in America, we could have slowed the spread considerably. First you had the 'I'm too good for quarantine' people, then you had the 'it's not real I'm a slavering fucking lunatic who thinks there could EVER be a conspiracy bigger than like three people that was actually kept properly secret', and last you have the 'i know the virus is bad but because science agrees with the left's positions more I'm going to stonewall everything, vaccines and all'. Every single person who decided they were more important than saving lives contributed to millions of cases, either socially via tacit endorsement or by actually spreading the virus. If you think it was about control... darling imperialist nations like mine have been building pyramids of skulls around the Gulf of Mexico and in South America for a century. We've been bombing countries halfway around the world and arming terrorist populations. We've genocided our natives, sterilized people without consent and refused to do so for women who ask. We have legalized slavery codified in law under the 13th Amendment via our prison system. If they declared martial law (long before the virus too) the general population has no means with which to fight back against authoritarian abuses no matter how many guns we stockpile. A quarantine and a vaccine are NOTHING other than an attempt to prevent tragedy. They don't and never did need it to control us. I don't know what you think it is I don't get. We're not uneducated, flea covered Londoners from centuries ago. It didn't have to be this way and denying that seems to me to be a weak attempt at relieving guilt.
@cezra833
Жыл бұрын
millions dead around the world, and that isn't real enough for you?
@helenhoward5346
Жыл бұрын
No kidding. A bad strain of the seasonal flu kills about just as much, or more, than covid for God's sake. Not to mention we can effectively treat covid. Healthy adults and minors are extremely unlikely to be in peril bc of the coof. The response's effect on the international economy will kill 10x more, I f'ing promise you that.
Deadly Covid managed to claw it's way up to 24th Place in the Cause of Death List. (It's that Terrible!!!!) For G-d's sake drop this hysterical scare mongering!
Why ya gotta ruin a good show with the rona bologna? 5/10
Why are you pausing in between a sentence, to quote, " the onslaught began to overwhelm (pause here)"...attempts to cope with " unquote, at the start of your narration. It confuses the viewers. Please don't upload such garbage videos again.
@skate103
Жыл бұрын
What are you talking about? You make no sense. Here's an idea - if you don't like it don't watch! Moron.
The villagers of eme didn't all die because they had immunity through genetic...it's on KZread somewhere
@karahershey
Жыл бұрын
Your right
@kellyshomemadekitchen
10 ай бұрын
The Delta gene I think it’s called
"Wow"