This is probably a dumb question, but if we eliminate the hydrophobia caused by rabies, would it increase the survival rate of active rabies? - eviltoast

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?

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      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.

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        8 months ago

        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.

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

          Also a great detriment to the “grand design”

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            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.