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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_101%3A_Zombie_Apocalypse

And:

... the generation of a “Zombie virus” cannot be firmly excluded according to the currently available biological evidence ... In keeping with this conjecture, an interesting simulation of an imaginary Zombie outbreak reveals that most of the US population would turn into Zombies within one week from appearance of the first case ... the transformation of Rabies virus into a “Zombie virus” will always remain a tangible threat surrounding human future

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7975959/