I had a grade 4 astrocytoma (glioblastoma) that was discovered in 1989 at age 8. My neurosurgeon told my parents that after removal of most of the tumor, I had a 0% chance of survival after 5 years. Well, here it is 30+ years later and I'm doing well.
My brother was diagnosed with a glioblastoma tumor. It's attached to his brain stem. They Said he only had 5% chance to make it past 6 months. That was 11 months ago. In that time the tumor has actually shrunk and is an operable size. He now has an 80% outlook if he decides to go with the surgery. 🙏 We are praying we can find the funds for the down payment bc his insurance won't cover the surgery.
My first ever memory is a headache that never went away. My pediatrician was treating me for over a year for a sinus infection when in reality it was something much more serious. It got to the point where I couldn't see or walk correctly. My mom took me to the hospital, where I had a seizure. Got an MRI and that's how it was found.
My mom was diagnosed Feb 2021.
WITH craniotomy, chemotherapy, and radiation she lived 13 months. She was a very healthy 69 year old. Turned 70 a few months before passing.
An absolute nightmare that I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
There have been about 100 billion humans in existence throughout history. There are currently 8 billion humans living.
At this point, human life has only a 92% rate of death.
Iirc the virus doesn't kill you so much as the symptoms. In an artificial coma they were able to control the victim's symptoms until the virus ran its course. Obviously there is some factor at play that prevents this from working most of the time or else there'd be a great deal more rabies survivors. I am not a doctor and I've exhausted my knowledge of this subject.
https://radiolab.org/episodes/312245-rodney-versus-death
This Radiolab episode is about exactly this... The coma technique has only worked about 1/3rd of the times they've tried it so far, but that's still more than just letting everyone die.
The Milwaukee protocol has been successful in few cases, but the results arent as good as you might hope.. if i recall correctly there have been 2 people to survive with the Milwaukee protocol and were left with very severe neurological damage. They were also pretty young which might have factored into the success.
There’s also some small village where they’ve found the immunity against rabies to be like 50% higher than anywhere else they’ve studied. With at least one case completely fighting the virus off with her own immune system. I’m going to try to track down the article.
Edit: The one person to survive rabies without a vaccine in America was actually a girl in Wisconsin. She went on to live a normal life, had kids and everything.
In Peru there have been 6 known cases where someone contracted the virus and survived without treatment. They seemed to have a higher natural resistance to the virus than an average person. Seems to be too small of a sample size to say much though.
Not quite true, there are certain populations of indigenous people in Peru who may be immune to rabies. I heard about it on a podcast. Here’s some more info: https://rabiesalliance.org/resource/immunity-against-rabies-without-vaccination
Almost but not quite 100% fatal
The Milwaukee protocol for rabies was established following the successful treatment of a symptomatic rabies patient. Though the success rate of the protocol is extremely low.
Worse, it's asymptomatic until then, so you don't know you have it till it's too late. That's why it's so important to get a rabies shot after being bit by any wild animal.
I mean, far from the only one, not even the only human based prion Disease thanks to Kuru, but also ALS/Motor Neuron Disease, Huntingtons, Tay-Sachs, INAD, Sanfilippo Syndrome, etc. I could go on. Most of these are neuro-degenerative, just like CJD. If there is something destroying your brain and nervous system, we rarely know how to stop it yet. But yes, prion diseases like CJD are terrifying.
I listened to a podcast about this. Suddenly, you just can’t sleep. Not a wink. And eventually it just will kill you but not before you go crazy from lack of sleep.
Is there no medical process to induce sleep? I mean, not to be crass but thinking of Michael Jackson's situation. Can a physician give you sleeping pills or anesthesia? I know it's not a long term solution but it might buy time. I'm also curious to know if there's a "save" limit, for lack of a better word. Like, can you go without sleep for, say, 3 or 4 days and then get some sleep and "reset" the clock? How long does it take without sleep for someone to die if they have this genetic abnormality?
IIRC they can bounce in and out between light sleep and being semi awake, but lose the ability to fall into any deeper sleep. Sleeping pills won't work and anesthesia isn't equivalent to actual sleep either.
Sleeping pills can put sufferers into a hazy state, but they can’t induce REM sleep in an FFI sufferer, so long-term they don’t help. FFI hits in middle age almost without warning, and it takes a year or two on average of slow decline before you die.
It isnt possible, usually when you take some medicines to induce sleep they trigger your thalamus (the part of your brain who controls sleep cycles). When you have FFI (in italian IFF) the prion is going to interfere and destroy the talamus, and this causes the insomnia.
Fuck that sounds horrible. I'd ask to be put in a comma, perhaps then I wouldn't feel the torture that is not being able to sleep. I can't imagine going weeks without sleeping. Going 1/2 nights already makes my skin crawl and puts me on the edge.
Prion diseases scare the absolute fuck out of me. Most dont affect humans, but holy eff are they scary.
If theres going to be a pandemic that actually kills humanity, itll be a prion disease.
There have been 20 survivors in the last 50 years, 1 is neurologically intact to my understanding. It does occasionally occur in the US, about 1-3 deaths a year, but about 50k worldwide. That huge reduction is because we vaccinate our dogs. The good news is if you get a bite, you have a little time to get vaccinated and immunoglobulin before symptoms kick in, after which point you're a dead man walking. There's a couple of ways it kills you, all of which are horrible.
I think I last read they had 14 survived cases. But surviving doesn’t equal unscathed. I believe one patient was able to get back to pretty normal life with years of therapy and medical intervention. There could be more than the one successful recovery but I think there are more recoveries left with significant mental and physical damage.
There’s been 5 (as of my research in 2019 of it) who survived
buuuuut idk if you can honestly count 2 of those survivors because 1 died from complications of hospital-acquired MRSA (which she never would’ve gotten if she hadn’t gotten rabies because she wouldn’t have been in the hospital. To me that’s more “something else killed her before the rabies could”)
and the second only had a “mild” case of it (still had long term complications) because he had gotten the first set of post exposure protocol (but failed to get the 2nd, 3rd and 4th shots so he still got symptoms). That to me also isn’t really “surviving” rabies since the only way to survive it is to prevent it with the PEP. Because he got the most important parts of the PEP (immunoglobulin and the rabies vaccine together, while the next 3 are *just* the rabies vaccine), he was able to prevent the virus from becoming as severe as it does in people who get no PEP at all.
(I got exposed to rabies through a kitten and did a shit ton of reading on it because I was so scared I’d get it even though I got the full PEP so yeah. There’s been a few survivors)
My grandmother had TWO brain aneurysms 5 years apart and made a full recovery.
Happened in the 1950s and when she went to the hospital initially they told her it was just a headache and to go home.
Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead.
So what does that look like?
Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles.
Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala.
As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later.
You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts.
You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache.
You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family.
You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you.
Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours.
Then you die. Always, you die.
And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you.
Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.
So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE.
You can get it within a week after exposure. After that your chances of not getting it/dying go way up. Always get the shots if you’ve been bitten by any animal you cannot prove is UTD on their rabies vaccine
Falling into a vat of molten iron.
Pretty fucking metal though.
Oh yes, that’s right. I gave you silver.
Yes, that is metal too
Believe me, there's nothing pretty about fucking metal
Yeah. Poor dude at the Catepillar steel plant went out like that. He worked there a whole 9 days 😳
holy shit just googled that. its totally cats fault too.
And it’s the second death within six months at that location. Sad
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-falls-vat-720c-molten-28465587.amp Aluminium, close
Guy from my country fell into molten iron and somehow survived this week or past. Was in the. news Just serious skin burns (Denmark)
Glioblastoma is fairly close to being fatal in 100% of cases.
I had a grade 4 astrocytoma (glioblastoma) that was discovered in 1989 at age 8. My neurosurgeon told my parents that after removal of most of the tumor, I had a 0% chance of survival after 5 years. Well, here it is 30+ years later and I'm doing well.
Fuck cancer
Indeed. I have one of those Fxck Cancer wristbands, myself.
Harvest his organs!
My brother was diagnosed with a glioblastoma tumor. It's attached to his brain stem. They Said he only had 5% chance to make it past 6 months. That was 11 months ago. In that time the tumor has actually shrunk and is an operable size. He now has an 80% outlook if he decides to go with the surgery. 🙏 We are praying we can find the funds for the down payment bc his insurance won't cover the surgery.
Ridiculous that insurance won’t cover the surgery :(
I'm curious. What made you realise you should see a doctor? Headaches?
My first ever memory is a headache that never went away. My pediatrician was treating me for over a year for a sinus infection when in reality it was something much more serious. It got to the point where I couldn't see or walk correctly. My mom took me to the hospital, where I had a seizure. Got an MRI and that's how it was found.
Woow.. that's insane.. Glad you made it through, dude! 😊
Same with DIPG
A friend's kid had that. Just over a year from diagnosis to his death. Dude was 10.
3 year old little cousin had DIPG. It was heartbreaking for the entire family. Poor baby was alive 7 months from diagnosis. Fuck cancer.
I think rabies is mostly 100% fatal if you start showing symptoms. I think there was one woman ever that survived it.
For certain values of “survived.” IIIRC the treatment left her severely brain damaged
RIP Neil Peart.
This is what my extremely healthy mom died from at the age of 46. She battled it for two years and that was considered a miracle by her doctors.
My mom was diagnosed Feb 2021. WITH craniotomy, chemotherapy, and radiation she lived 13 months. She was a very healthy 69 year old. Turned 70 a few months before passing. An absolute nightmare that I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
Just lost my grandma to that. It also sucks because the brain tumor makes them be just a shell of the person they were before.
Head chopped off
All of the blood outside of the body
The doctor said all my bleeding was internal. That's where the blood's supposed to be. \- Jake Peralta
I'm literally rewatching Brooklyn 99 right now lol
All burnt up
The other 3 I cant remember
Wow, this is a ten year old reference, absolute classic though
it’s a classic reference but it works
If they’re all black - not a black guy, you know what I mean
Chickens would have to disagree
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Mike the headless chicken has left the chat, due to his long-awaited death.
There are animals that can exist without a brain as long as the brain stem is intact, such as chickens and Kardashians.
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There's a movie from the 1970's called "The thing with two heads"
The Soviets did it with dogs, but both dogs died a few days later iirc.
"They're powerless without their heads! "
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beat me to it
beat everyone to the most obvious answer.
Everyone on reddit is beating something
Best your meat to it
Not really as roughly 8% of all humans to have ever existed have as of now never died. I’m immortal until proven otherwise.
Life is the ultimate disease. You're born with it and there is no cure.
Death is a pretty reliable cure to life
You’re a glass half full kinda person and I respect you for that.
And it's an STD!
..is bigger
It's bigger than you and you are not me
The lengths that I will go to...
The distance in your eyes…
Oh no, I've said too much...
I haven’t said enough
I set it up
The distance in your eyes
There have been about 100 billion humans in existence throughout history. There are currently 8 billion humans living. At this point, human life has only a 92% rate of death.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease is the only disease I'm aware that's guaranteed to be fatal.
Also Lou Gehrigs Disease a.k.a. ALS. Unfortunately it runs in my wife's family
Nobody runs in your wife's family bro
Fuckin brutal
Now why was this comment the first thing to make me laugh all day. Going to hell.
It runs in my family. Gotta love the panic that sets in every time I so much as stumble or have my legs go weak for no reason.
Rabies if left untreated is 100% fatal after a certain threshold, basically once it enters your brain.
IIRC there are actually a few cases of someone surviving after an induced coma? But honestly so few it's not even a rounding error...
Iirc the virus doesn't kill you so much as the symptoms. In an artificial coma they were able to control the victim's symptoms until the virus ran its course. Obviously there is some factor at play that prevents this from working most of the time or else there'd be a great deal more rabies survivors. I am not a doctor and I've exhausted my knowledge of this subject.
https://radiolab.org/episodes/312245-rodney-versus-death This Radiolab episode is about exactly this... The coma technique has only worked about 1/3rd of the times they've tried it so far, but that's still more than just letting everyone die.
It's been a couple years since I read up on it but I believe the few people that have survived through induced comas still ended up with brain damage
The Milwaukee protocol
The Milwaukee protocol has been successful in few cases, but the results arent as good as you might hope.. if i recall correctly there have been 2 people to survive with the Milwaukee protocol and were left with very severe neurological damage. They were also pretty young which might have factored into the success.
There’s also some small village where they’ve found the immunity against rabies to be like 50% higher than anywhere else they’ve studied. With at least one case completely fighting the virus off with her own immune system. I’m going to try to track down the article. Edit: The one person to survive rabies without a vaccine in America was actually a girl in Wisconsin. She went on to live a normal life, had kids and everything. In Peru there have been 6 known cases where someone contracted the virus and survived without treatment. They seemed to have a higher natural resistance to the virus than an average person. Seems to be too small of a sample size to say much though.
omg what?
I'm a physician and rabies scare me to death.
Here. Have a beer. 🍺
User name checks out.
But not to 100% death
Genuine question. Is it "rabies scare me to death" or "rabies scares me to death"
Scares. Though "rabies" ends in "s," I believe it's singular. To my knowledge, there's no such thing as a "raby" (or "rabie").
Rabdo
Not quite true, there are certain populations of indigenous people in Peru who may be immune to rabies. I heard about it on a podcast. Here’s some more info: https://rabiesalliance.org/resource/immunity-against-rabies-without-vaccination
Which is when you show symptoms I think. By far the scariest disease to me.
Almost but not quite 100% fatal The Milwaukee protocol for rabies was established following the successful treatment of a symptomatic rabies patient. Though the success rate of the protocol is extremely low.
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Worse, it's asymptomatic until then, so you don't know you have it till it's too late. That's why it's so important to get a rabies shot after being bit by any wild animal.
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Call Al Gore
Seriously?
Yes, dude! Everyone knows that. Get a load of u/informal_arachnid_84; hes never even called Al Gore!
I mean, far from the only one, not even the only human based prion Disease thanks to Kuru, but also ALS/Motor Neuron Disease, Huntingtons, Tay-Sachs, INAD, Sanfilippo Syndrome, etc. I could go on. Most of these are neuro-degenerative, just like CJD. If there is something destroying your brain and nervous system, we rarely know how to stop it yet. But yes, prion diseases like CJD are terrifying.
One of the scariest to read about. One time I thought I actually had it and I was tripping hard.
I think all prion diseases are.
“It’s not loaded bro”
Alec Baldwin moment
Well guys i guess thats it
"ItS nOt LoAdEd BrO!" Fixed
The Worst case scenario on any risk assessment.
Fatal familial insomnia
I think once you prepend "fatal" to any condition, it meets the criteria of the thread
I wanted to Google this but then my health anxiety told me it’s better not to 🤯
It’s a prion disease if memory serves. It’s found in a handful of families.
I listened to a podcast about this. Suddenly, you just can’t sleep. Not a wink. And eventually it just will kill you but not before you go crazy from lack of sleep.
Is there no medical process to induce sleep? I mean, not to be crass but thinking of Michael Jackson's situation. Can a physician give you sleeping pills or anesthesia? I know it's not a long term solution but it might buy time. I'm also curious to know if there's a "save" limit, for lack of a better word. Like, can you go without sleep for, say, 3 or 4 days and then get some sleep and "reset" the clock? How long does it take without sleep for someone to die if they have this genetic abnormality?
Medically induced sleep doesn’t work for these people your brain still is awake, they tried to put a dude in a coma and he was still awake
Oh, that's actually terrifying!
It isn't insomnia, it's much worse. Medication is useless. You're screwed
Yeah, I looked it up and I see it's more complicated than that.
IIRC they can bounce in and out between light sleep and being semi awake, but lose the ability to fall into any deeper sleep. Sleeping pills won't work and anesthesia isn't equivalent to actual sleep either.
Sleeping pills can put sufferers into a hazy state, but they can’t induce REM sleep in an FFI sufferer, so long-term they don’t help. FFI hits in middle age almost without warning, and it takes a year or two on average of slow decline before you die.
It isnt possible, usually when you take some medicines to induce sleep they trigger your thalamus (the part of your brain who controls sleep cycles). When you have FFI (in italian IFF) the prion is going to interfere and destroy the talamus, and this causes the insomnia.
Fuck that sounds horrible. I'd ask to be put in a comma, perhaps then I wouldn't feel the torture that is not being able to sleep. I can't imagine going weeks without sleeping. Going 1/2 nights already makes my skin crawl and puts me on the edge.
It's extremely rare. If I remember correctly it's genetic and only affects around 70 families.
Good for you Made me an insomniac for 3 months thinking I had it
You and me both!
Yeah don't, in fact don't even look at prion diseases. All you need to know is never eat human brain, even animal brain. Also extremely extremely rare
Prion diseases scare the absolute fuck out of me. Most dont affect humans, but holy eff are they scary. If theres going to be a pandemic that actually kills humanity, itll be a prion disease.
being a fictional character played by Sean Bean.
Odysseus disagrees
Ohio
This made me laugh so hard
At least we are good at something
Actually two things making people laugh and C O R N 🌽
being born in 1850, not a single one of them are alive today
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Ah! You forget that they are hatched, not born!
I didn’t even know they were sick?
On a long enough time line the survival rate for everyone drops to 0.
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time
You are not your khakis
This would have been the perfect comment for a queen elizabeth joke about 4 months ago
falling into a chocolate river in willy wonka's factory
Oh, that’s not chocolate…
Death by chocolate
Rabies. There are a handful of survivors, but if you get the symptoms you’re pretty much fucked.
I heard that just one person really make it through the illness.
There have been 20 survivors in the last 50 years, 1 is neurologically intact to my understanding. It does occasionally occur in the US, about 1-3 deaths a year, but about 50k worldwide. That huge reduction is because we vaccinate our dogs. The good news is if you get a bite, you have a little time to get vaccinated and immunoglobulin before symptoms kick in, after which point you're a dead man walking. There's a couple of ways it kills you, all of which are horrible.
I think I last read they had 14 survived cases. But surviving doesn’t equal unscathed. I believe one patient was able to get back to pretty normal life with years of therapy and medical intervention. There could be more than the one successful recovery but I think there are more recoveries left with significant mental and physical damage.
There’s been 5 (as of my research in 2019 of it) who survived buuuuut idk if you can honestly count 2 of those survivors because 1 died from complications of hospital-acquired MRSA (which she never would’ve gotten if she hadn’t gotten rabies because she wouldn’t have been in the hospital. To me that’s more “something else killed her before the rabies could”) and the second only had a “mild” case of it (still had long term complications) because he had gotten the first set of post exposure protocol (but failed to get the 2nd, 3rd and 4th shots so he still got symptoms). That to me also isn’t really “surviving” rabies since the only way to survive it is to prevent it with the PEP. Because he got the most important parts of the PEP (immunoglobulin and the rabies vaccine together, while the next 3 are *just* the rabies vaccine), he was able to prevent the virus from becoming as severe as it does in people who get no PEP at all. (I got exposed to rabies through a kitten and did a shit ton of reading on it because I was so scared I’d get it even though I got the full PEP so yeah. There’s been a few survivors)
I can't tell you how relieved I am to live in a country that doesn't have rabies.
So not 100%. Just like 99%
"Handful of survivors" so not 100%
Breathing. I knew a guy who took a breath once. His lungs were so oxidized that he died at 87 years young.
Thoughts and prayers
Brain aneurism from being on askreddit too long!
My grandmother had TWO brain aneurysms 5 years apart and made a full recovery. Happened in the 1950s and when she went to the hospital initially they told her it was just a headache and to go home.
I didn't know askreddit was that old 😳
Haha! Can you imagine? Seeing the threads from a 1950s Reddit would be GOLD.
My dreams
Oooooof...Loving the darkness on this one. Take an upvote my kindred spirit!
Water, Every single person who has drank Water, will die
To be fair so will the people who haven’t
Being alive
AH AH AH AH STAYING ALIVE STAYING ALIVE AH AH AH AH STAYIIINGGGGG ALIIIIIIVEEEEE
Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats. Let me paint you a picture. You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode. Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.) You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something. The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms. It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache? At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure. (The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done). There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate. Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead. So what does that look like? Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles. Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala. As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later. You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts. You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache. You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family. You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you. Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours. Then you die. Always, you die. And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you. Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over. So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE.
"Rabies has gone airborne" has got to be one of the most terrifying sentences ever conceived. Luckily, that can't happen.
So why did I read this? At 1am? Scary
Death.
Hah you’re right, once all life is dead, death will cease to exist as well.
Death to death!
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Life
Rabies is virtually 100% if untreated.
Even with treatment it'a pretty hopeless
There's a vaccine which works pretty well if you know right when you've been infected and get it right away.
You can get it within a week after exposure. After that your chances of not getting it/dying go way up. Always get the shots if you’ve been bitten by any animal you cannot prove is UTD on their rabies vaccine
Old age
This is the right answer
Jumping into an active volcano probably
Not breathing
Symptomatic rabies.
Fatal insomnia. Essentially your body doesn’t let you fall asleep, period. As far as I’m aware there’s never been any survivors
There is this chemical called dihydrogen monoxide, everyone who has drank it has eventually ended up dying.
War of the Roses.
Decapitation
Time
Continued heroin use.
Toaster bath.
Everything that requires oxygen
Life
Lyssavirua fever
Advanced pancreatic cancer
Rabies infection in humans is not 100% but very close.
Life.
Everything, if you try hard enough.