Substantial under-detection of human rabies cases in the United States

2 points by bucket2015 4 days ago | 2 comments

jfengel 2 days ago |

I thought that untreated rabies was almost invariably fatal. The symptoms are quite obvious.

Is it possible that there are a lot of asymptomatic rabies cases, who end up dying from some other cause?

bucket2015 2 days ago | |

That's actually the thought I ended up having: could there be asymptomatic rabies that never go noticed or reported?

jfengel 2 days ago |

I thought that untreated rabies was almost invariably fatal. The symptoms are quite obvious.

Is it possible that there are a lot of asymptomatic rabies cases, who end up dying from some other cause?

bucket2015 2 days ago | |

That's actually the thought I ended up having: could there be asymptomatic rabies that never go noticed or reported?