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Why don't rabies infected humans act like rabies infected animals (lemmy.today)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This always puzzled me. Why don't humans act much more aggressive or crazed like its often depicted with animals. Afaik there's 2 types of rabies, "dumb" and "furious" so my question is more towards the 2nd type. For example, we never hear of rabies causing a human to accidentally bite another human so why is that?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Bats actually. They seem to be carriers of the disease but don't seem to be affected by it themselves, but they might still scratch you or bite you through normal behavior.

Although fortunately not a lot because they're not particularly aggressive. Mostly they just ignore humans as they tend to be out of reach and we're far too slow to be able to really do anything to them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fair. To rephrase, is there another animal that's not made bitey by being ill with rabies.