BACKGROUNDRabies is a preventable viral disease. In India, rabies is transmitted to humans mainly by dogs. Rabies has an incubation period lasting for several days to months or years. Here, we report a case of a young male who presented with aerophobia and hydrophobia, about twenty years after a suspected rabid dog bite, thus suggesting that rabies virus may have an unusually long incubation period.
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