10 Terrifying Prehistoric Diseases Modern Medicine Can't Cure

Some diseases are older than writing, older than cities, older than farming itself, and modern medicine still cannot cure a single one of them. From a million-year-old retrovirus hiding in our blood and a worm drawn from the leg exactly as it was in the age of the pharaohs, to a prion made of nothing but a twisted protein and a rabies virus that has meant near-certain death for four thousand years, these are the ancient plagues we still carry in blood, nerve, and bone. Discover ten terrifying prehistoric diseases that outlived the civilizations they haunted, and the reasons they remain beyond our power to cure. Chapters: 00:00 - The Ancient African Retrovirus In Our Blood 03:02 - The Little Dragon In The Water 05:53 - The Laughing Death 09:00 - The Flesh-Eater With No Pain 12:05 - The Passenger That Waits 15:07 - The Virus In Almost Everyone 18:23 - The Creeping Virus 21:28 - The Virus That Strikes Twice 24:41 - The Parasite That Rewrote Our Genes 27:42 - The 4000-Year Death Sentence #FossilFred #prehistoric #ancientdiseases #paleomicrobiology #incurablediseases #rabies #malaria #guineaworm #kuru #prions #herpesvirus #epsteinbarr #htlv1 #virology #history #ancienthistory #disease #plague #evolution #science