I've been learning some about rabies and learned about rabies causing hydrophobia. This is just a theory, I'm not saying I know anything about this topic to be knowledgeable, but if we could get someone with rabies to not fear water, could they survive?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 132 points 2 years ago (6 children)

No. You can fix the dehydration relatively easily by just giving the person liquid intravenously.

But the primary way rabies kills you is liquifying your brain, which is independent of how hydrated you are.

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    So that's what The Shape of Water is about, never saw it.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Nah that movie was about how human men are biologically flawed and that our cock and balls should be internal in some kind of clam shell like thing.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Happy reptile noises.

    For whatever reason sperm cells just come out better when kept a couple degrees colder, though, so here we are with our insides out.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah its the prime example that evolution isn't perfect just happy with good enough.

    Also a great detriment to the "grand design"

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    It also illustrates a funny bit of the logic of multicellular non-clonal creatures: the germ line is the species. The other 99.9...% of you is just a fancy delivery mechanism, so it makes sense to add something seemingly super impractical to the anatomy if it slightly helps the sex cells.

  • source
  • parent