Mind Control Parasites in Half of All Humans

[jason]

iiii writes "According to a Yahoo News story, half of the world's human population is infected with Toxoplasma, a parasite shown to alter the brain function of rats, inducing them into behavior that benefits the parasite but is suicidal for the rat. So what affect does it have on humans? Article comes complete with Heinlein 'Puppet Masters' reference. I call dibs on using Toxoplasma as a name for my rock band."

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It also causes people to blog

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[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

Of course it also causes the feeling that you and your friends are part of the percentage not infected, or so my angry leftist anthropologist self conjectures. But all is well... we ALL should become farmers in cyprus, vint the wine, let the cheese ripen in cool grottos, and slaughter the goats and roast them on spits. When are we leaving?