Curiously there are around 6 cases reported in India in the recent years, with varying degree of confidence in the diagnosis. With 20000 confirmed death per yea

Curiously there are around 6 cases reported in India in the recent years, with varying degree of confidence in the diagnosis. With 20000 confirmed death per year in India, this could mean that survival rate is in fact 0.01% and not 0.00%, it just looks the same unless you have a huge sample. Another interesting question is: how many people get infected, then recover, but never develop the symptoms? Do they exist? Could it even be common? On that question, the chances of developing symptoms after a confirmed rabid bite are estimated to be between 15% and 60%. What exactly happens to other 40%? Does the virus fails to get hold and multiply? Or on the contrary it's not stealthy enough and triggers the immune response that defeats it? Or it starts to spread and then stops for some other reason? And whatever happens, what exactly determines it: truly random chance, or genes of the infected person or variant of the virus or type of the bite? Currently we identify rabies with the terminal stage of the disease and the only reliable test is posthumous, so no wonder it's 100% deadly. While it's indeed extremely deadly it's still a curious question of how much exactly this "extremely" means: 60% or 99.99% or 100%. Probably this will never be studied, because the humane way is to conduct none of that research and just vaccinate every suspected person within reach. Plus where possible try to eradicate infection reservoirs like the did in the Alps in 1970s. These 20000 people in India could've lived, it's a shame really.