The title of this post is the name of a very weird, possibly mind controlling, microbe. A parasite that infects many different species on this planet. Researchers have observed that once the microbe has infected a rat, the rat will be more likely to seek out a cat(!). The cat happens to be the only suitable host for the microbe to complete it's reproductive process.
This microbe also exists in humans and different studies suggest that humans infected by the microbe are more likley to become schizophrenic, and in women, change the standard ratio of male vs. female births on an average, in the favor of males.
This is all very odd and twisted. The mind altering bug seems to be one of those little things we might have overlooked, and personally I am quite convinced that similiar microbes and parasites, exists in many different places, plants and animals. And there's basically no telling how they might influence or affect us.
Mind-Control Microbe @ Discovermagazine.com |
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