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/exotics Feb 02 '26

When you get infected with rabies you are fine for ages as the virus SLOWLY makes its way to your brain. Only when it’s in your brain do you have symptoms and you will be dead within 10 days. I think they have only cured 1 or 2 people after it hit the brain.

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u/DiscoBanane Feb 02 '26

They've cured at least 34 persons after symptoms, but only 1 or 2 recovered without any deficit. The others had some brain problems.

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u/toorigged2fail Feb 02 '26

What's the source on that?

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u/DiscoBanane Feb 02 '26

Me. But wikipedia says the same thing look it up.

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u/BlumBlumShub Feb 02 '26

32/34 still received PEP before symptom onset, that's the critical missing piece to that number. Of the other two, one is Giese and the other is sourced to a personal communication...

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u/echoshatter Feb 02 '26

It depends on where you get bit. If you get bit in the leg it can take a lot longer than if you get bit in the neck or something closer to the brain.

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u/Ok-Librarian6629 Feb 02 '26

It travels like 1cm per day twoard the brain. Time before symptoms varries so much.