why are rabies incurable
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Many diseases are incurable, even viral diseases (AIDS, Herpes, etc.). That’s just because has found a good way to do it yet. Hell, we can’t even “cure” the flu, it just kinda tends to resolve on its own, and we have a few medications that can vaguely try to help the process along, but it’s still our immune system doing the heavy lifting.
The really interesting thing that sets rabies apart from almost any other disease is that it has such an incredibly high (basically 100%) fatality rate, and that’s basically just due to how it works: it hides inside your nerves which is a place that your immune system generally has trouble reaching (other diseases like Herpes use this trick as well, but they’re thankfully not as destructive). Then it travels through them up into your brain, and once there it just generally causes havoc and turns it all into goo. Your brain is a place that your immune can reach even less, so once it’s there there’s really no stopping it, and you kinda need your brain to live so the aggressive destruction always ends up being fatal.
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