6 Mysterious Disease Outbreaks Through History

After living with COVID-19 the last few years, we're all thinking about how to prevent another pandemic—often, our best clues come from learning about outbreaks of the past. Join Stefan Chin for a new episode of SciShow all about mysterious deadly diseases. Let's go! SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman. Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Sources: The Great Dying Cocoliztli The Justinian Plague (13)70323-2/fulltext The Antonine Plague ~history/journal/1996-7/ The Plague of Athens (05)00178-5/pdf Earliest Known Plague Image Sources: :Bubonic_plague_victims-mass_grave_in_Martigues, : : : : : : : : : : : :(1_of_2).jpg : : : : : : :Ebola_Virus_Particle_(43492898261).jpg :Trypillian_city_(Maydanets).jpg : :Champlain'