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Why don't rabies infected humans act like rabies infected animals (lemmy.today)

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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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[-] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 9 points 10 months ago

It seems like a simple explanation, but the history of biology is pretty much the history of thinking we we're special and then finding out we were wrong, over and over again.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah the "insects don't feel pain" era. Nowadays we know that bugs can recognize human faces. Nobody knows why, they just can.

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