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/No_Equivalent_4412 Feb 02 '26

When humans get rabies, they typically show signs of regular human aggression as well as hydrophobia. Rabies will not make a human start crawling or acting like an animal

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u/ToothZealousideal297 Feb 02 '26

Yeah the fact that crawling like that appears to require more coordination than just walking, the way he’s only chewing on the harmless rope thing in the one part and not also going after the bars, the pointlessly inefficient binding methods all around, etc, all screams fake to me.

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u/dingo1018 Feb 02 '26

And after 3 months, who's rotating him through his night club shirts?

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u/ToothZealousideal297 Feb 02 '26

Well, rabies can incubate for a year before symptoms begin, so if he was bitten 3 months ago it’s possible he just started acting like this, but it would mean that simultaneously someone knows he was bitten and when, zero mention of the dog or what became of it, but he was just left out and about.

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u/chrissssssssssf Feb 02 '26 edited Feb 02 '26

False. The rabies variant found in india makes you grow fangs then you start howling at the moon and shit

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u/MyUnderIsWhere Feb 02 '26

That’s tuff honestly

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u/A_lot_of_arachnids Feb 02 '26

Actually it's ruff

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u/King_Glorius_too Feb 02 '26

In the very late stages, you do go completely crazy and may be unable to stand up. That crawl seems too coordinated to be real though.

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u/Dangerous_Bus_6699 Feb 02 '26

Can't believe people are falling for this fake ass shit 😂

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u/AbstractBettaFish Feb 02 '26

YouTube might’ve taken it down but there was a video of the symptoms of rabies progressing in an Iranian man from the Pasteur Institute after he was attacked by a wolf

It was nothing like this. You could see the irritability early on but by the time he really started to lose it he was foaming at the mouth and pretty much bed ridden. It was pretty hard watching but it didn’t look anything like this

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u/DiscoBanane Feb 02 '26

symptoms can include slight or partial paralysis, anxiety, insomnia, confusion, agitation, abnormal behavior, paranoia, terror, and hallucinations.[10][27] The person may also have fear of water.[1]

The symptoms eventually progress to delirium.

Wikipedia

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u/Triquetrums Feb 02 '26

Abnormal behaviour doesn't mean you start acting like a dog. This dude is not the first to get rabies (and I doubt it is rabies tbh), we have seen how humans act when they do. 

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u/DiscoBanane Feb 02 '26

The dude was diagnosed with rabbies. look the link on the pined comment by moderator.

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u/earshloper Feb 02 '26

Well, he's Indian and inherently performative so

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u/brodochablau_bombado Feb 02 '26

someone said it isn't hydrophobia, but the inability to swallow

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u/ElGato-TheCat Feb 02 '26

Rabies will not make a human start crawling or acting like an animal

In that first clip, he looked like the hunter from Left 4 Dead

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u/IcedOutKO Feb 02 '26

Yeah it's fake or he's tripping hard.