I know a symptom of rabies is Hydrophobia, but I’m so curious as to how and why the virus can do that.
And I don’t know even mean unable to drink water – I mean those visceral & terrified reactions to even being offered water.
How could a virus make you afraid of water?
In: Biology
to put it as simply as I can, rabies spreads through your saliva. So the virus wants as much spit in your mouth as possible so you can give it to others. In order to force that to happen, the virus speeds up how much spit you make and also makes swallowing anything nearly impossible by making your throat close up and hurt very very much. You aren’t so much afraid, as much as the virus is doing with it has to do to spread by making it so painful your body won’t let you anymore.
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