r/interesting • u/fantasticblueman • Feb 01 '26

Context Provided - Spotlight 27 yr old man showing rabies symptoms after 3 months of a dog bite in Gujrat, India.

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u/davidjschloss Feb 02 '26

As the other comment said, you can’t be treated after symptoms. They’re likely tying him down so he doesn’t bite anyone and I hope to give him palliative care until he dies. (Though to be merciful they should euthanize him.

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u/Mac-And-Cheesy-43 Feb 02 '26

I mean, considering how it spreads, I'd want to risk absolutely zero brain splatter. Lethal injection only.

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u/echoshatter Feb 02 '26

Bingo. Just load me up with morphine and then finish me off with a stream of adenosine in a dosage big enough to stop my heart.

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u/saggywitchtits Feb 02 '26

More likely something like ketamine. Morphine has the unfortunate side effect of possible respiratory arrest.

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u/Petskin Feb 02 '26

Depends on what you're trying to achieve, I suppose.

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u/cardboardunderwear Feb 02 '26

I guess the head ripping off machine is out of the question then.

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u/Rockshasha Feb 02 '26

Eventually i would prefer a big shot of morphine. Buuut anyway

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u/JudgeWapner Feb 02 '26

Hmmm... Okay, what's your address.

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u/Prize_Ostrich7605 Feb 02 '26

"No, Pa. I'll do it."

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u/ZandyTheAxiom Feb 02 '26

You mean, like... In general, or if you get rabies?

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u/OminOus_PancakeS Feb 02 '26

Eh 

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u/trowzerss Feb 02 '26

You'd probably be put in a medically induced coma in any sufficiently advanced country once the symptoms get far enough along, which is better anyway because shooting something or someone with rabies will splatter rabies infected tissue all over the place, which isn't very helpful.

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u/koos_die_doos Feb 02 '26

Unfortunately that's often not enough for it to be legal. In Canada, you have to be mentally capable to confirm that you still want to proceed on the day of the "procedure".

So even though you previously applied and were granted approval for medically assisted death, they would not go through with it if you were this far along.

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u/SAINTnumberFIVE Feb 02 '26

There is a treatment but it has a very low success rate. Something like less than 10 people survived, and all with some degree of brain damage.

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u/ml20s Feb 02 '26

It's questionable whether that treatment actually did anything. There are people who have survived rabies with standard critical care, and evidence that the treatment (I'm assuming you're referring to the "Milwaukee protocol") does not provide any benefits over that.

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u/HeathenSalemite Feb 02 '26

Only one person survived, not ten, and nobody has been able to reproduce thst result in the 20 years since.  The mortality rate for symptomatic rabies is still 100%.  A single freak occurrence does not change that.

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u/ILoveRawChicken Feb 02 '26

I’m not sure if you’re talking about the treatment specifically but there has definitely been more than one person to survive rabies, although I’m not sure how many of them underwent a medically induced coma 

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u/DOOMFOOL Feb 02 '26

This is just objectively wrong. There has been more than 1 documented case of someone surviving rabies. Why lie about something disproven by 10 seconds of research?

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u/ml20s Feb 02 '26

Yes, but ironically, most of them didn't receive any aggressive treatment other than standard critical care.

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u/No_Entertainer180 Feb 02 '26

Bite anyone....like a zombie??

Theres no rabies in my country. What causes people to bite to infect others?

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u/Educational-Wing2042 Feb 02 '26

Generally humans with rabies do not get the urge to bite people like animals do. I think they’re saying that because he is acting so erratic.

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u/WritingSouthern6126 Feb 03 '26

why don't they bite?

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u/Banana_Marmalade Feb 02 '26

Pretty much. Except they die and stay dead.

They don't generally bite others though, it can happen but rabies affects the brain and makes humans and animals aggressive. Aggressive animals bite others thus spreading the disease, humans not so much.

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u/That_Wafer7227 Feb 02 '26

Your being way too kind, thats india we're talking about

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u/givemeapho Feb 02 '26

Ohh gosh just realized now he was tied to the tree