Just saw a video about rabies having 100% kill rate, peaked my interest.
Why is rabies such a horrible thing and what does it actually do to be able to kill you without an actual cure etc?
EDIT: I didn’t expect so many responses to this, thank you to everyone who answered!
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It **PIQUED** your interest. Not peaked.
The rabies virus makes mammals afraid of water, it makes their salivary glands produce tons of virus-laden foam, and it makes them aggressively attack and bite anything they encounter. That’s how it spreads. It takes over the brain and salivary glands. This damages the brain and kills the host from brain damage. It’s essentially hacking the brain-computer in a very aggressive and damaging way. In order to force the brain to do what the virus wants it to do, it needs to cause a lot of massive brain damage. Which is why it’s always fatal.
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