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Rat with herb salad

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Rat

Crazy cat women (such as myself), have been accused of being neurotic for any number of reasons in the past, but now it seems, it might be true and, down to toxoplasmosis infection from our very moggies:

“As a follow-up to Cory’s entry in January of last year on how toxoplasmosis may alter people’s moods (women become more friendly; men become more paranoid), recent studies suggest that infection by the parasite may also cause people to become more prone to feeling guilty, develop schizophenia, have auto accidents, or be born male.”

“The parasite Toxoplasma gondii alters the brain chemistry of rats so that they are more likely to seek out cats. Infection thus makes a rat more likely to be killed and the parasite more likely to end up in a cat.”

I’d stick to the salad, if I were you Chester!

Mind-Control Microbe Via: BoingBoing

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