In September 2008, a 32-year-old man in Russia developed rabies after being bitten by a stray dog six weeks earlier. The case was documented by epidemiologists at the Moscow Center for Disease Control and later featured in The Lancet Infectious Diseases in 2009. The footage captured unmistakable symptoms of furious rabies, including violent throat spasms when attempting to drink water, a reaction caused by brainstem inflammation that disrupts the swallowing reflex. The man also showed extreme se