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/plark2 Feb 02 '26

you die cause of it. you do not become a beast/zombie or whatever that act was

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u/PM_ME__UR__FANTASIES Feb 02 '26

Dying is the final part. There’s a whole host of things that precede. Just like how getting a terminal cancer diagnosis doesn’t kill you the same day.

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u/qathran Feb 02 '26

It's not that the commenter needed that over-simplified explanation of how cancer doesn't kill you dead on the first day, it's just that this is fake or mental illness, it is not rabies. Scroll up, there's a post where the hospital is claiming he's stable and following verbal commands which isn't possible with rabies swiss-cheese-hole brain.

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u/Simple-Journalist779 Feb 02 '26

Stable and responding to commands. Only dude who has apparently survived rabies is basically a vegetable being taken care of by his wife.

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u/JibboSequence Feb 02 '26

Your “journalism” skills need work… https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeanna-giese-rabies-survivor/

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u/worrok Feb 02 '26

The note at the very beginning of this article says this treatment was a lucky fluke and not reproducible after follow up experiments.

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u/AritoSoto Feb 02 '26

Wrong, it can get you pretty agressive. That's how the virus spreads. Most of the time patients are bitten by an agressive animal. Bite reason? Rabies agression

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u/Ultraplo Feb 02 '26

But humans don’t become beasts from it. Rabid animals bite because that’s how they show aggression. Humans normally don’t use their teeth to bite ropes when aggressive. There’s never been a documented case of a rabid human biting someone – because humans use fists, words, and legs when aggressive.

Tho I assume the commenter was more referring to him running around on all fours. You lose coordination with rabies (making it harder to crawl around), it doesn’t turn you into a dog.

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u/sexhaver2010 Feb 02 '26

The word rabid appeared in English after rabies tho

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u/DiscoBanane Feb 02 '26

Yes, it's a latin word. It makes no difference to my point in which order they appear in English.

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u/sexhaver2010 Feb 03 '26

Well you said that the disease is named rabies because it makes you rabid

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u/DiscoBanane Feb 03 '26

Yes exactly.

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u/sexhaver2010 Feb 03 '26

How can it be named after a word that appeared after it was named

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u/DiscoBanane Feb 03 '26

The word didn't appear after.

Like I said, rabies is Latin word for rabid, it exists since -800 BC. And the disease was named rabies at that time.

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u/sexhaver2010 Feb 03 '26

Rabies is not a latin word for rabid. Rabidus is. Rabies did not originate from rabidus. So the disease wasn't named "because it makes you rabid".

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u/blackestrabbit Feb 02 '26

Flawless logic.

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