🩸 = a random diagnosis. oh hello teacher. i've seen you around. You get rabies!!!!! 🎊🎊🎊 a personal favorite!!!! You will have flu-like symptoms as well as muscle aches and brain fog for some time. There will be little to no indication of anything more than the flu aside from maybe tingling near the point of exposure (bite, scratch, etc) working its way up to your head over the course of days, months... it depends. Rabies' incubation period can last anywhere from a few weeks to years, and by the time you show any symptoms it is too late. You do not have long. Less than a year by the time you end up in a hospital. Probably weeks or days by the time you start rejecting water, which is a tell-tale sign and usually how people realize rabies if the bite/scratch is not identified. Fun fact! rabies does not make you "afraid of water" it makes your throat muscles (previously barely used) actually convulse when you attempt to swallow water. This response is so painful that sufferers, confused and delirious by this point, do act fearful when given water, only because theyre reminded of how awful it is. There is an experimental form of treatment- the Milwaukee protocol- that may save you, but it is up to your family, since it's not officially proven to work consistently. See there's actually some evidence rabies is survivable. In isolated civilizations without access to the vaccine (which can stop the disease before it advances if youre given it quickly after exposure, then a few more times after) there were corpses discovered that had rabies antibodies in their system. Antibodies are what vaccines give you, they say "i had this virus and i beat it! no more for me!". Vaccines trick your body into developing them, but they can develop naturally if you survive a disease. Meaning these people, without access to a rabies vaccine, had beaten it. And the rabies virus had cleared from the sufferer's systems. So a doctor in Milwaukee gathered from this, if the body had enough time to fight the disease without it reaching the brain, the tools to beat it were already there. Thus he developed the Milwaukee protocol; you will be essentially put into a near-death state, kept alive by machines, and pumped full of medication, until the rabies clears. This has been successful around 5 times since its invention in 2004, but attempted around 40 (rounding up on the latter, its closer to 35). (ive heard of more survivors using this method, but i cant find evidence of it as of writing so perhaps im mistaken.) However there is an alternate theory for why antibodies are present in some bodies-- some people just have the immune system to develop it, and some people do not. Some sort of genetic miracle. Because this cannot be ruled out, as I said, the Milwaukee protocol is not officially seen as a cure or even recommended as a treatment plan in most cases. If it were me, though, and I missed the vaccine period... I'd give it a shot. The first survivor went from one foot in the grave to a near full-recovery.

Thank you for your ask, and I apologize for the length of this post.