That was fast! From my understanding, I though rabies was a slow-progressing illness that could take years to manifest symptoms. 5 weeks after a scratch is wild!
Rabies is relatively quick, five weeks is about average. You may be thinking of prion diseases which can take years if not decades to even start showing symptoms.
when you are transplanting organs, the recipients need to be on immunosuppresants too, so the infection wouldve become quickly deadly very soon. you need to be on anti-rejection meds for a long time too.
That was fast! From my understanding, I though rabies was a slow-progressing illness that could take years to manifest symptoms. 5 weeks after a scratch is wild!
Rabies is relatively quick, five weeks is about average. You may be thinking of prion diseases which can take years if not decades to even start showing symptoms.
rabies can be months, or years depending on where you were bitten on the body.
when you are transplanting organs, the recipients need to be on immunosuppresants too, so the infection wouldve become quickly deadly very soon. you need to be on anti-rejection meds for a long time too.
As a kid I was always told that rabies kills within 11 days so less than 2 weeks.
Yeah, that I was told too. But less than two weeks from where the symptoms appear, not from the wound/bite.
If the symptoms start to show it’s too late, the brain is already inflamed.
Symptoms means you got at most 2 days since you can’t drink water. Usually hours?