What makes rabies so terrifying isn’t just that it’s almost always fatal once symptoms appear, it’s how the virus works. This video from MinuteEarth explains how rabies quietly travels through the nervous system, hijacks the brain, and manipulates animal behavior to spread itself through bites.
Oddly enough, humans don’t usually get the same “rage zombie” behavior seen in animals like dogs or bats, mostly because biting isn’t exactly one of our natural instincts. Which means humans are often a dead-end host for the virus, even though the damage it causes is just as horrifying.