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Anonymous Sat Nov 21 18:22:21 2015 No.7673493 [Reply] [Original]

My girlfriend does biology at university and we were discussing if a parasite could ever take control of a human as its host the same way it does insects, would this ever be possible?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 21 18:25:53 2015 No.7673500 No.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 21 18:28:10 2015 No.7673504 Well Toxoplasma Gondii makes rats go suicidal, so it's not far off to think something like that could influence human behaviour too, maybe not 100% though. I think I heard some stories about how funghi might be the cause of some forms of schizophrenia.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 21 18:28:24 2015 No.7673505 >>7673493 >>7673493 >What is Toxoplasmosis

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 21 18:28:34 2015 No.7673506 File: 22 KB, 306x306, is this retard serious.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7673493

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 21 18:30:23 2015 No.7673511 >>7673504 I heard something regarding most humans have a form of parasite which makes them more reckless and put themselves in more danger but obviously I dont do science

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 21 18:34:12 2015 No.7673513 File: 9 KB, 189x267, rika.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7673493 Yes, didn't you ever watch Higurashi?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 21 21:53:42 2015 No.7673787 >>7673493 Quite a while back I recall reading about flukes. Some people know about liver flukes and the like, but apparently there are bacterial and fungal flukes that attach themselves to your CNS. Apparently.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 22 11:51:50 2015 No.7674921 File: 11 KB, 77x85, Untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7673513 Fucking beat me to it.

Anonymous Sun Nov 22 12:03:24 2015 No.7674936

Yeah. Theoretically it could change neurohormone levels to make you desire close contact/cuddling, or secrete toxins that induce delirium and violence. It wouldn't consciously be controlling the host, no parasite does, but it would change behaviour with no issue.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 22 14:15:19 2015 No.7675177 >>7673506 dumb frogposter

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 22 15:02:22 2015 No.7675250 >>7673505 this

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 22 15:55:56 2015 No.7675325 >>7674936 dingdingding

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