SciShow: How Eating Camel Dung Saved Lives

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Content of the Lesson: Back in the day, bacterial diseases like dysentery were super deadly, but the nomadic people in northern Africa had long known about an effective, if hard to swallow, cure. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://doi.org/10.1080/19490976.2017.1293224 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2006.10.009 https://doi.org/10.4103/2455-3069.198381 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2012.01.006 https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1927.s1-7.199 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15853875/ https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-695X.2008.00415.x https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-020-02010-x https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16547057/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19682248/ Images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gbaku/3618785248/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camel_dung_Prosopis_Kutch_IMG_1882.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bedouin_and_camel_-_panoramio.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacillus_subtilis_Gram_stain.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacillus_Anthracis.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacillus_subtilis_swarm.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dung_von_Trampeltieren.JPG https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/small-group-of-camel-excrement-gm1210945125-350996211 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/camels-in-oman-gm1283926580-381195871 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/medicines-in-hand-gm183430520-15566280 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pattern-of-orange-pills-on-blue-background-gm1212022632-351715847 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/black-female-hands-holding-empty-plate-on-orange-background-top-view-free-space-gm1184191936-333238744 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/fried-pork-and-vegetables-on-white-background-gm1190330112-337387729 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/vector-illustration-of-a-shit-icon-or-poop-icon-isolated-on-white-background-gm1045514872-279793260 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/camels-gm182148189-1111518


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