Rabies: 120 Years After Pasteur 1/2

[Sebragnarok]

this will help my presentation I have tomorrow thx

[KgirlHasTheWits]

Very good documentary! Apparently there have been only six people who survived rabies after symptoms began, and that's out of thousands :(

[CiaoBello21]

Much to popular belief, rabbies does not cause hydrophobia but rather that once an infected individual shows symptoms of the virus, then their tissues such as their throat and lungs becomes so swollen that it is too painful to drink water thus causing them to avoid drinking water.

[Tillie26]

@CiaoBello21 Actually, it's the uncontrolable spasms of the throat that causes the hydrophobia or even aerophobia

[fenriz218]

"once the symptoms appear the disease is always fatal"

Does is mean the first symptoms like headache, nausea, joint-pains, etc or those it refere to later symptoms like hydrophobia?

[tac62184]

@fenriz218 very first symptoms. It means the virus has reached the brain

[partylolking]

Informative. ;)

thx