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Rabies and the fear of rabies can be a frightful thing, especially when one considers how truly agonizing the symptoms and eventual outcome of someone suffering from hydrophobia — which is the clinical term for rabies — will experience. As far as being fearful of the disease itself, the clinical term for this is hydrophobophobia. In some people, this fear of contracting rabies can be practically debilitating.
This fear or phobia is one of numerous phobias that have been identified by clinical mental health specialists over the years. What makes this one particularly serious is that the fear that it can create in many of its sufferers borders on the near hysterical. Perhaps this is partly due to the way in which rabies as a disease is so horrible and also in how it occupies a place in pop culture.
One reason people become so fearful of possibly contracting the rabies virus is that it has been nearly 100% mortality rate, meaning that those who actually contract the disease will almost certainly die. Even though there is a 100%-effective anti-rabies medication, people still can’t get the stories of foaming-at-the-mouth vicious dogs and animals out of their minds.
It doesn’t really help that there have been a number of movies over the years that have taken advantage of the rabies theme, particularly one that was released in the early 1980s that featured a large St. Bernard who eventually developed rabies and became, basically, a killing machine. In people, the fear of contracting rabies, then, can become almost visceral in its intensity.
There are therapies that exist to help people deal with this fear of contracting is viral disease, though. In some instances, clinical treatment could take years though there have been recent advances in therapies that make it possible for people to work through their phobia in a much more efficient and helpful manner. This has been a great development for those who suffer from this phobia.
For those actually suffering from the fear of rabies, others need to know that it is a real phobia that can strike terror in the hearts of those afflicted by it. This is even though the chances of being afflicted by rabies itself are extremely remote. Fortunately, those who suffer from the phobia have treatments available to them that are effective and widely available.
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