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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Rabies isn’t too much deadlier than other pathogens, the problem is the period of symptoms.
Imagine an infection which is so sneaky that you won’t feel it until the moment it has already killed you, and you get rabies. Just like other infections and pathogens it still takes days or weeks to kill, but it doesn’t give you any real symptoms until it hits your brain and by that time you can’t recover.
So yes rabies kills all people who present symptoms because the only symptom is beyond the recovery period.
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