6 Disease Breakouts That Changed the Course of History

Famous deadly diseases have had some pretty major impacts on human history—some changing the course of human life forever. In today's episode of SciShow, Stefan Chin shows you 6 diseases that shaped human history, and changed life as we know it today! Head to https://scishowfinds.com/ for hand selected artifacts of the universe! ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Jerry Perez, Lazarus G, Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: Plague https://news.nationalgeographic.com/n... http://jmvh.org/article/the-history-o... https://www.ancient.eu/article/782/ju... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2... http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factshee... http://www.austincc.edu/microbio/2704... http://content.time.com/time/specials... https://www.history.com/topics/black-... Smallpox http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-en... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc... https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytim... http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/var... http://www.who.int/csr/disease/smallp... http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/1... Syphilis https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/stdf... https://www.theguardian.com/books/201... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-c... http://www.dictionary.com/browse/chem... https://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/8... http://jmvh.org/article/syphilis-its-... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_priz... Cholera http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/snowc... https://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmat... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... Yellow Fever http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsh... http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/... https://www.cdc.gov/yellowfever/index... https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/his... https://www.epa.gov/mosquitocontrol/s... http://homeguides.sfgate.com/homemade... Hemophilia http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/1... https://www.nature.com/scitable/conte... https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/... https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/... https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/tay... https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/... https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/hem... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...