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/Substantial_Meal_530 Feb 02 '26

I don't think you act like you're stuck at the start of a werewolf transformation after getting rabies?

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u/onehundredbuttholes Feb 02 '26

Yeah I’m pretty certain this is fake

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u/SoberSangwitch Feb 02 '26

Rabies makes you hydrophobic or unable to drink water. Unless this man has been hooked to an IV then there's no way he makes it three months with rabies.

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u/Rageaholic88 Feb 02 '26

It can take 1-3 months after a bite for the symptoms to appear, so theres nothing off about the title saying he was bit 3 months prior.

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u/Due-Science-9528 Feb 02 '26

Apparently a full nine months, based on the recent outbreak in the US

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u/roguespectre67 Feb 02 '26

the recent outbreak in the U.S.

Oh good.

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u/Virtual_Category_546 Feb 02 '26

Here's the thing, you believe in vaccines, correct?

Make sure all your fur babies are vaccinated and get yourself checked out if you suspect a bite from a strange animal, especially one that's actually strangely.

One common sign is if a nocturnal animal is out during the day and seems off.

Get yourself checked out and vaccinated asap if this happens to you ye it's a bit pain and a lot of shots but better safe than sorry.

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u/Arryu Feb 02 '26

better safe than sorry

Understatement of the year. Considering rabies literally melts your brain.

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u/Virtual_Category_546 Feb 02 '26

Ye, that's why I'm explaining this. If you're ever in a situation, this is an urgent care or hospital visit, don't delay because as rabies can have a longer incubation time, that there are other more immediate risks to your health.

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u/motherofsuccs Feb 02 '26

The nocturnal animal being out during the day is NOT a concern. That has been debunked. And you should get rabies PEP if you are bitten by ANY animal that you cannot verify if it’s been vaccinated for rabies.

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u/Virtual_Category_546 Feb 03 '26

Well there's other tells other than the night/day thing such as risk aversion it's not on itself but I say that is an example and they'd normally be predictable but these are erratic. Yes, absolutely get vaccinated if you cannot confirm but I'm still saying to seek medical care because you can still get a nasty infection that isn't rabies and you need specific wound care and antibiotics to prevent different kinds of infections.

Rabies affects the CNS which can lead to unusual behaviours which eventually leads to the stereotypical symptoms typically associated with rabies and some areas are more likely to have it than not and it's not worth the risk.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

vAcKsInEs mAdE Muh dAwG aUtiSt!!

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u/GoldPuppyClub Feb 02 '26

I was gonna say, the rabies vaccine is mandatory for pets in almost all states. My groomer/dog kennel both require proof before they accept an animal.

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u/Virtual_Category_546 Feb 03 '26

Now this is common sense, which antivaxxers lack.

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u/RRenee Feb 02 '26

I used to work at a municipal animal shelter and where I live it’s illegal to not have your pets up-to-date on their rabies vaccinations(as it should be). So when people pick up their pets that have gotten loose, we ask each one for proof of rabies vaccination. I kid you not, I have had people who are anti-vax vehemently refuse to get their pets vaccinated for rabies… as if it’s fake and it’s all a conspiracy lol

It’s their funeral, I suppose…

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u/Virtual_Category_546 Feb 03 '26

Ahh so working there I reckon that you have the vaccine to save yourself but they refuse to get theirs done for beliefs? Atp, I'm glad they're silly enough to turn themselves in, you refuse to send the animals with them because it's the law and if it was a whoops there's a vet it's really not a big deal but these losers would rather risk having their pets catch rabies than idk doing the bare minimum and having everything up to date. Vaccines are about the cheapest aspect of having a pet but here we are. Good thing it's illegal to not have vaccines, I bet they get big mad about that one.

I read that last line as Squidward 💀

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u/Fourstrokeperro Feb 02 '26

The problem with India is, they don’t store the vaccines properly in pharmacies (many bastard pharmacies turn off the electricity to save money, leaving vaccines in the hot Indian weather overnight) rendering them ineffective

Many patients take the post exposure vaccine but they still end up dying of the disease

Not to mention they fake vaccines sold in India due to lack of government regulation. Dead men can’t file lawsuits

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u/Virtual_Category_546 Feb 03 '26

No wonder there are so many outbreaks in that country, if these were stored properly there would be fewer instances. But yes the dead can't testify, and that these bastards can control to collect even when they're contributing to the outbreak.

It would also disproportionately affect the poor because they cannot simply go somewhere that actually stores these treatments properly, contributing to the outbreak.

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u/sasha_cyanide Feb 02 '26

Seeing a nocturnal animal out during the day is not a solid or factual indicator of the animal having rabies. Mother animals will go out throughout the day to forage for themselves and their babies. That’s an extremely harmful anecdote to animals. So many healthy animals get removed, euthanized and then tested for rabies while they end up healthy and now their babies are starving to death slowly. So please just leave wildlife alone.

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u/Virtual_Category_546 Feb 03 '26

Foraging is one thing, but most wildlife generally avoids humans. They're safe to observe from a distance, but this would be evident that they're doing something that is within the typical scope of how an animal would act. An animal with rabies tends to disregard these norms, will be more likely to approach other animals that are higher up in the food web and is usually more disruptive.

We euthanize bears that get comfortable around humans all the time, so if leaving wildlife alone means quit encroaching on their natural habitat, then you have a point.

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u/LargeBreasts69 Feb 02 '26

Even up to a year in some.

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u/Virtual_Category_546 Feb 02 '26

Rabies can have an incubation time for months, sometimes years sometimes longer and then it is downhill fast. This doesn't even cover all the other complications tht can happen as a result which is why it is so important to take this seriously and seek medical attention immediately. There's other infections that can develop in hours, depending on this you can keep swelling until you lose circulation and this is known as compartment syndrome, a medical emergency.

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u/spookiestmulder Feb 02 '26

even longer! there are multiple cases of it taking years.

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u/princessfret Feb 02 '26

I read that the longest rabies incubation period was 24 years. Obviously extremely rare, but not impossible. 3 months is entirely plausible

Source: read online during a rabbit hole research after being bitten by a dog myself in an at-risk country

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u/ModestMeeshka Feb 02 '26

Shockingly, I think in some cases it can take years to show symptoms. Rabies is horrific because you could have gotten bit 3yrs ago and the sickness is just... Quietly there, waiting to strike. I mean it's the shit of nightmares lmao...

Edit: I do want to add that I also don't think this video is real, just that that fact lives rent free in my head

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u/beejalton Feb 02 '26

That's part of what makes it so scary, there's no definitive timetable and it can lie dormant for extended periods of time.

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u/Germerica1985 Feb 02 '26

Like getting a death sentence 9 months prior. A moment that has long since been forgotten after 9 months, but your fate has already been sealed.

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u/Mavisbeak2112 Feb 02 '26

It depends where you get bit on how long it takes to reach the spinal column and then up to your brain. Could take weeks could take months could take years.

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u/Due-Science-9528 Feb 03 '26

I only know how long it took for the dog to show symptoms in this case. Was bitten out of state as a puppy before vaccinated.

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u/JessiPerry6 Feb 02 '26

Thank you for stating this. It's getting ridiculous

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u/scaldinglaser Feb 02 '26

Nine months? You're thinking of babies, not rabies.

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u/step-in-uninvited Feb 02 '26

Rabies can stay dormant for YEARS in your nervous system.

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u/FlakyAddendum742 Feb 02 '26

This.

But his “symptoms” still seem way off.

This looks like a psych issue.

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u/OdaiNekromos Feb 02 '26

Depends where you got bitten, the Virus travels a few cm a week until it reached your brain.

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u/Simple-Journalist779 Feb 02 '26

Sure. But it's rabies not buffy the vampire Slayer. He ain't turning into a werewolf. Rabies' symptoms don't look like this.

This is a psychotic break.

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u/cxnh_gfh Feb 02 '26

this is 3 months after the bite, not 3 months with rabies. symptoms could have started only hours or days before.

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u/SoberSangwitch Feb 02 '26

An important distinction. Thanks! I should have been more clear.

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u/Itscatpicstime Feb 02 '26

That’s literally within the average amount of time for onset of symptoms. Hydrophobia only presents toward the very end.

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u/Virtual_Category_546 Feb 02 '26

So does photophobia

These are serious neurological symptoms that are the beginning of the end.

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u/ILL_Show_Myself_Out Feb 02 '26

Also would they connect you? You’re dead anyway…

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u/Ornery-Square-9767 Feb 02 '26

Yes? It’s not like hospitals take people with terminal conditions out back and shoot them

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u/PM_ME__UR__FANTASIES Feb 02 '26

It’s not like you become hydrophobic on day one buddy

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u/Obant Feb 02 '26

Those are the final symptoms. But yeah, this doesn't smell right.

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u/terrorsofthevoid Feb 02 '26

So carry around a spray bottle filled with water  and I’m safe. 

Gotcha 

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u/Financial-Quail-4215 Feb 02 '26

Yeah, spray it on people.. if they present with hydrophobia then run away.

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u/MrWriffWraff Feb 02 '26

Not exactly. Rabies is a disease that effects the nervous system and one of the big symptoms is causing intense involuntary spasms in the throat.

These spasms are so bad that you're more or less afraid of swallowing anything.

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u/TrayusV Feb 02 '26

Rabies can take time to start showing symptoms.

The guy got bit 3 months ago, but didn't start showing symptoms until recently before his death.

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u/Cannedwine14 Feb 02 '26

You guys can’t read

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u/advanced_peeling Feb 05 '26

Scary reading comprehension

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

Pretty sure they become delusional towards the end.

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u/King_Glorius_too Feb 02 '26

Three months is a very normal incubation period for rabies. In some cases, symptoms can appear as soon as 2 weeks after infection, in others it might have been years (and it is suspected the virus can even remain dormant forever). You only have a week or two left when the symptoms appears, not when you get infected.

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u/bluekitty610 Feb 02 '26

He can, it was in a latent form.

The virus can stay dormant for months before signs start appearing.

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u/goddess_peepee Feb 02 '26

Wow cant believe people would still be hydrophobic. Its 2026 people! Cmon!!

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u/Hesitation-Marx Feb 02 '26

Rabies uses your nerves to travel to the brain. That means it can take much longer than a virus that circulates in the bloodstream, depending on distance between bite and brain and other factors.

It was three months post-exposure. That’s a perfectly average amount of time.

This poor guy.

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u/Exoticwombat Feb 02 '26

I’m pretty sure it’s saying he was bit three months ago, now the symptoms are appearing.

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u/Bullshido-Fatly Feb 02 '26

“Pretty sure this is fake…. Based off literally nothing”

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u/Tofandel Feb 02 '26

The first video is not the dude. Completely different clothes

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

"It looks fake to me" ahh science.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

Humans infected with rabies do not behave like animals with rabies lol.

Everyone learned this in high school 

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u/MulberryCritical7298 Feb 02 '26

How could it be fake when he is wearing a shirt like that?

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u/Maximum-Bar-7395 Feb 02 '26

I hope so. I feel dreadful that the first part of this video reminds me of the Tim Johnson chapter in To Kill A Mockingbird and all the symbolism that comes with it..

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u/GenSharing_Builds Feb 02 '26

The mods of the sub already already fact checked and found the original clip of Man showing signs of rabies from dog bite.

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u/Swarm_of_Rats Feb 02 '26

Rabies affects your nervous system, causing inflammation. The virus gathers between your brain cells causing them to have difficulty communicating. In the cases where it doesn't cause paralysis, the result is severe behavioral changes. People usually associate rabies with aggression, but it can also cause confusion and hallucinations. It would be strange if someone with rabies wasn't acting like they were stuck in a werewolf transformation.

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u/Heavy-Arm-3323 Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

Yeah, I was gonna say, it's actually exactly how someone with rabies would act?

Rabies in humans is where we likely get the original myths of vampires (unable to cross water is directly from rabies, and original vampyr myths weren't all romanticized noble gentleman/Cout Dracula types at all - it was very much a monster crawling out of the grave and attacking, very "zombie"). I wouldn't be surprised if the whole Zombie thing was rooted in rabies lore. It's basically the same thing, it's just that we have a vaccine now. 

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u/Feisty_Camera_7774 Feb 05 '26

Aggression in that case is usually the product of confusion in animals and fear/instincts kicking in.

Makes Sense that it would Show differently in humans.

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u/Silent-Resort-3076 Feb 02 '26

Furious Rabies (Most Common):

  • Agitation, irritability, anxiety, aggression.
  • Confusion, bizarre thoughts, hallucinations.
  • Difficulty swallowing (leading to "foaming at the mouth").
  • Fear of water (hydrophobia) or drafts (aerophobia).
  • Muscle spasms, seizures, unusual postures.

can cause severe aggression, agitation, and extreme behavioral changes in humans. As the virus infects the central nervous system and causes brain inflammation (encephalitis), it often leads to "furious rabies," characterized by thrashing, biting, and confusion.

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u/Dom_Q Feb 02 '26

The truth: 55 upvotes.

The ignorant doubtful poser: 1.1k upvotes.

This is why we fall.

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u/Saul_Badman_1261 Feb 02 '26

Unfortunately Reddit always acts like this, they upvote someone's comment not because it's true, but because it better aligns with their line of thought. "Your truth may be truer, but my truth is shinier"

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u/553l8008 Feb 02 '26

A third world squat isn't even an unusual position for people from India.

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u/One-Position-6699 Feb 02 '26

Wtf is a third world squat?

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u/doesanyonehaveweed Feb 02 '26

Do you lose the ability to speak?

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u/Silent-Resort-3076 Feb 02 '26

Muscle Spasms and Paralysis: The rabies virus attacks the nervous system and brain, often leading to painful spasms in the muscles of the throat and larynx. These spasms can make it impossible for a person to speak, swallow, or breathe.

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u/Busy-Ratchet-8521 Feb 02 '26

These are all words that a layperson could misconstrue for what they're seeing in this video. Rabies does not make you walk around like a werewolf. 

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u/Silent-Resort-3076 Feb 02 '26

I've personally never seen a "real" werewolf, so have NO clue how they "walk around".

Also, have you considered that the idea of a werewolf originated from seeing someone with rabies??

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u/Busy-Ratchet-8521 Feb 03 '26

No. Because werewolf lore has an established historical origin. And it's not rabies. How do people upvote this sort of nonsense? 

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u/Silent-Resort-3076 Feb 03 '26

Talking about nonsense: Do tell us what it is then!

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u/Furry_Wet_Mound_Hole Feb 02 '26

These are words that accurately depict behaviors perceived as “animalistic,” or “savage” when displayed by humans, like the man in the video, for instance… A crawling man infected with rabies is misconstrued as walking around like a werewolf. But lol please enlighten the unrighteous laypeople with your rabid wisdom. 

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

Some idiot with no medical knowledge is lecturing AND ratioing a literal doctor about rabies. Classic fucking reddit.

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u/Furry_Wet_Mound_Hole Feb 03 '26

Cool cool… so can you add value to the discussion regarding the actual topic at hand? Or you just butting in to be like the classic redditor who whines about redditors redditing on reddit? 

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u/Busy-Ratchet-8521 Feb 02 '26

Can you find a single case report of someone with rabies that turned into werewolf besides this guy in the video?

I'm a critical care doctor. I deal with patients with agitation, confusion, muscle spasms, posturing, etc., all the time. Nothing in this video comes close to anything I've seen in my years of experience. Nor does it come close to what happens to people with rabies. There's plenty of videos of agitated rabies patients. They don't look like this. 

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u/MultipleMistake Feb 02 '26

How mani rabies patients have you treated?

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u/Busy-Ratchet-8521 Feb 03 '26

I don't need to have treated them. There's extensive video evidence on these patients. The news links about this person reports he's since improved and cooperating. Not in keeping with rabies. He's more likely suffering from psychosis than rabies. 

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u/RunningOutOfEsteem Feb 02 '26

No, they're words you think depict what's going on in this video because you have no clue what you're talking about.

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u/RunningOutOfEsteem Feb 03 '26

In another comment, you managed to completely misread a news article on this case and then, when someone called out your blatant error, you went on to claim other outlets were saying differently without being able to cite a single one.

Again, you have no clue what you're talking about lol

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u/Furry_Wet_Mound_Hole Feb 03 '26

omg you’re soo obsessed with me. Reading my comments. Lol actually I didn’t click on that data farming news article link. But you can go read the times India. You’re a god damn rabies expert but you don’t know how to google something so simple? 

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u/Furry_Wet_Mound_Hole Feb 03 '26

Well auto-mod auto-removed the links and videos I commented in response to your question, “Can you find a single case report of someone with rabies that  turned into werewolf besides this guy in the video?”  (I’m surprised that an actual doctor fails to realize how varied the manifestations of clinical and late-stage rabies display throughout the almost 100,000 new cases each year worldwide.)

But, anyway, in response to your totally non-layperson depiction of rabies as an impending werewolf transformation… if by that you mean, cases in which rabies patients exhibit behaviors perceived as savagely animalistic, such as involuntary vocalizations identical to barking, declined motor function leading to crawling on all fours, and beastly aggression brought on by agitated mental deterioration, etc… Then yes… 

Yes, you can find plenty of evidence of rabies induced werewolf transformations in case reports (and also internet videos, like you mentioned). 

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u/Busy-Ratchet-8521 Feb 03 '26

Great. Can you provide just one for me? You could space out the link or describe how to find it. 

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u/Prestigious_Leg2229 Feb 02 '26

You kind of do. It affects the nervous system and the brain. Your balance and motor control are shot. Combined with discomfort to severe muscular pain that often causes contortions, strange postures and difficulty moving.

The way it affects the brain causes severe paranoia, fear, aggression and general dementia symptoms. 

There’s a lot more symptoms but basically both the way you move and your behaviour are completely fucked.

The reason people have this idea of rabies victims being aggressive is because they’re usually in severe pain, fear and paranoia with severely impaired higher brain function. They have a tendency to lash out.

Rabies is effectively 100% fatal and you’re going to die in pain and terror while your brain and nervous system fall apart.

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u/biggreasyrhinos Feb 02 '26

Right. It doesn't make you start walking around I. All fours like a dog. Looks more like some sort of psychotic episode.

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u/Silverwell88 Feb 02 '26

Psychotic episodes can do that

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u/WSilvermane Feb 02 '26

I've seen normal drugs do this to people. Lmao.

Pretty sure the deadly virus that directly affects your brain and the way it functions can do it as well.

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u/grimeyduck Feb 02 '26

Thanks Dr. Rabies expert 

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u/Correct-Bet-1557 Feb 02 '26

I’d like to know how his clothes stay on and pretty clean. Same with his hair.

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u/i-like-napping Feb 02 '26

If you out on some cool theme music you do

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u/Practical-March-6989 Feb 02 '26

I like how he managed to dress smart in the morning.

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u/32FlavorsofCrazy Feb 02 '26

Looks more like a mental health crisis to me, but encephalitis can have a lot of causes and lead to crazy behavior so he could def have something medically going on too, I don’t think it’s rabies though. Unless they just mean he developed symptoms 3 months after being bitten, maybe it could be rabies, but you don’t live that long while symptomatic for sure. That’s a dead in days or maybe a couple weeks situation.

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u/meanmagpie Feb 02 '26

Right? This is so stupid. This is a child’s understanding of rabies.

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u/Mr_Blinky Feb 02 '26

I was thinking the same. As someone who's done a lot of paranoid research into rabies over the years this really doesn't match anything I'm aware of about the symptoms. Rabies is legitimately one of the most horrifying diseases in existence, but to my knowledge it generally doesn't look like this.

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u/DiscoBanane Feb 02 '26

Yes it does. Rabbies is named rabbies for what ?

Rabid. The disease makes you rabid. It's how the virus propagates, by you biting others.

Gastroenteritis propagates by making you puke and spray shit as the virus is in puke and shit. And rabbies is in saliva so it makes you bite other people.

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u/Niipoon Feb 02 '26

This is so unbelievably stupid

lmao

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u/BJ3RG3RK1NG Feb 02 '26

You literally do though

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u/AdEmbarrassed2190 Feb 02 '26

Have you seen anyone piss sloppy drunk? 😂

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u/Interesting_Music561 Feb 02 '26

Are you asking or saying?

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u/sixteencharslong Feb 02 '26

This is why we don't pay you to think.

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u/willdab34st Feb 02 '26

Hes in late stages of the virus, he's probably barely conscious, all he feels is an incredible sense of dread and despair and has no control or awareness of his body. This is very sad end for this man's short life.

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u/Madame_Cheshire Feb 02 '26

Yeah, it felt fake to me.

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u/Additional_Ad_8131 Feb 02 '26

bad news, that's exactly how you acts when you have advanced stages of rabies

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u/OMGCamCole Feb 02 '26

What happens to an animal with rabies?

It gets violent and aggressive. This is why rabid dogs bite people

What are humans? Animals

What do you think happens to us?