As we all know, rabies is a scary disease, and since there are no effective drugs for rabies, it is basically impossible to cure rabies, and more than 99% of rabies patients end up dying. The cause of rabies is infection by the rabies virus, usually from animals with the rabies virus. For example, many rabies patients are infected by the bite of an unvaccinated dog. So, do people with rabies bite people like dogs do?
First of all, it is very likely that a person with rabies will bite someone. Rabies is a bit like AIDS in that there is an incubation period. During this incubation period, it is basically undetectable because there are no unusual symptoms. Also, the incubation period of rabies varies from person to person, and is also related to the depth of the bite. In general, most patients have an attack after 30 days or even four or five months after the bite. However, there are a few cases where the attack occurs in about 20 days.
In the early stages after an attack, a person with rabies may develop headaches, suffer from nausea, have a low-grade fever, anxiety, boredom, and weakness. Since the patient is unusually anxious and bored, he or she may also act in a biting manner. After these symptoms last for two or three days, the patient becomes extremely sensitive to light, sound, and even wind stimulation. The slightest irritation will cause intense discomfort in various parts of the body, including tightness in the throat, numbness and pain in the body, and a feeling that something is writhing in the body.
We make this period the period of rabies excitement, during which the rabid person is unusually afraid of water and wind. Especially when they hear the sound of wind and water and see light, the throat will spasm. The patient is in great pain, wants to drink water but is afraid to go for it, and in severe cases has difficulty breathing. If this euphoric period is hard to get through, the next step is to enter the coma period, during which the patient’s body will gradually fail, which in turn leads to death.
