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NEW VIDEO: The Deadliest Virus on Earth
🕑 Added 2022-07-26 14:03:00 +0000 UTCIn the 1970s thousands of Chickenheads rained from the sky in Europe, making foxes and other wildlife confused and very happy. Why? They were filled with a vaccine to fight the deadliest virus known to humanity – since the 1930s a rabies epidemic had been sweeping across wildlife populations in Europe and humans wanted to finally get rid of the virus once and for all.
Rabies is named after Lyssa, the ancient Greek spirit of mad rage, and has been haunting us for at least 4000 years. It can turn animals into angry beasts and humans into zombies that fear water. But what makes Lyssa fascinating is not just how bizarre and deadly its infection is, but also how incredibly good it is at avoiding our defenses.
Comments
Gaëtan Perrault
+1 to this... what happened to the airdrop chicken heads?
Xenia
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Sterling
Truly terrifying. I had a suggested YouTube video, weirdly, of a Vietnamese man with hydrophobia a few months ago and it scared the crap out of me. Rabies is as bad as it gets.
Carl Stone
Excellent video as always, but I think this one was missing something. You introduced the airdropped chicken heads without any follow-up. I had to search online for whether it was effective or not.
ghostman
I didn't know much about this virus and this video was excellent!
