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http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/12/the_rise_of_tox.html

Seemingly 40% of the world's population are infected and are somewhat crazy. Also cat shit makes women horny. If that's not enough incentive to make you read the article I don't know what is.

Any thoughts?

Very strange.

http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/12/the_rise_of_tox.html

Seemingly 40% of the world's population are infected and are somewhat crazy. Also cat shit makes women horny. If that's not enough incentive to make you read the article I don't know what is.

Any thoughts?

I need a cat...really bad.

Well, im already a border line schitzo, so i don't feel like crossing that line so maybe ill just due without the cat.

Besides, i don't need cat sh*t to make women horny, i can do that myself :D

The most common means of transmission to humans is raw or undercooked meat.

like practically every other disease infecting humans, we get it from domesticated food animals. ah the wonders of meat eating...

I have three cats, I think I'm doomed.

like practically every other disease infecting humans, we get it from domesticated food animals. ah the wonders of meat eating...

Heh.. not quite. Very few diseases are transmitted through eating meat. The worst diseases historically (malaria, Chagas, yellow fever, TB, the Plague, influenza, etc.) had nothing to do with meat. Recent ones like West Nile are similarly disconnected from the diet of the victim.

Tommy dies of toxoplasmosis in Trainspotting (movie)

i actually knew what you were referring to when i saw the thread title

about three years ago a friend forwarded me the following:

From Of cats and rats -- a tale that's a brain-teaser (link no longer exists sadly)

"My 20-pound black and white cat -- dubbed Kalibushka, a Russian name that can be loosely translated as Tub of Lard -- is normally good-natured.
She rarely moves except to chow down, making her home in the newspaper recycling bin I keep in the garage.
But at night she'll sneak out for a few minutes and come back with a prize. She has the habit of presenting these nightly trophies to me by the back porch.
Somehow, in spite of her obesity, she manages to out-waddle a surprising number of fast-running rodents in short order.
I don't mind her nightly hunting routine; I can't say I'm displeased she is keeping down the rat and mouse population in the neighborhood.
A few weeks ago, however, I started to notice the rats she had caught have been missing something -- their brains.
With the exception of a few teeth marks, the bodies of the rats are generally unmarked. But the skulls are split open and the brains appeared to have been neatly sucked out.
Yucky.
Why would a perfectly normal -- although admittedly overfed -- cat suddenly develop a taste for rat brains?
I did a little research, and it turns out there may be a reason for her sudden hunting prowess and passion for rat brains.
I ran across a BBC science article about a week ago that shed some light on the situation.
Scientists have discovered a one-celled protozoan parasite called Toxoplasma gondii that frequently lives in the brains of wild brown rats. It is a normally harmless parasite commonly found in most mammals, including man.
But T. gondii can only reproduce in the guts of cats.
Researchers at the University of Oxford in the past couple of years have been studying the parasite and now have found it appears to be influencing the behavior of rats.
Scientists say it makes infected rats unafraid of cats, their natural enemy.
But the Oxford researchers found that when infected, normally super-cautious rats not only are significantly less fearful of cats, but they also are actually drawn to them.
No one knows how it happens, but they do know why.
The parasites need to be eaten by cats in order to get into their digestive system and reproduce. Somehow, they are changing the behavior of rats to make that more likely to happen.
It appears to be a rare case of microscopic parasites manipulating the behavior of a mammal host.
The question remains whether T. gondii can, in addition to rats, influence cat behavior or even our own. Researchers now are looking into that issue as well.
I've seen Alien -- no one needs to draw me a picture of what may be going on.
I can't really blame my overweight cat if rats in the neighborhood suddenly want to commit suicide in front of her.
And if she wants to wolf down rat brains like candy corn, that also is fine with me.
But I am disturbed by a change in Kalibushka's behavior in the past couple of days.
She is now eating just the rat bodies, leaving the heads and brains intact by the back porch.
And I'm very afraid she's leaving them for me.”

I object! You can be yourself and insane, if insanity is part of who you are.

http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/12/the_rise_of_tox.html

Seemingly 40% of the world's population are infected and are somewhat crazy. Also cat shit makes women horny. If that's not enough incentive to make you read the article I don't know what is.

Any thoughts?

Pharmaceuticals win (yet again).

40% of the Human pop. are not themselves (i.e. insane)
The proportion is even worse on this forum.

So this virus makes you eat brains…

You’ know odds are I’m infected *goes about sucking peoples faces*

The proportion is even worse on this forum.

If it isn't 100% it's because someone hasn't slipped quite far enough yet.

I dont need no steenkin bugs to make me strange. ~Dances~ "Bbrraaiinnss"

Ok, now that I've actually read the article I'm worried.


In otters, toxoplasmosis is a major cause of brain inflammation and resulting mortality


I'm borderline just about everything and I'm an Otter.

Damn, I need a woman with a cat.

Maybe the women that I´ve dated had that decease.

Damn, I need a woman with a cat.

Maybe the women that I´ve dated had that decease.

the typo makes it funny

Am I the only person who has become somewhat ailurophobic after learning of the existence of this disease? Perhaps I'm unusual in this regard, but I tend to be afraid of this sort of things. It seems like a real-life form of those mind-controlling aliens you see in sci-fi.

One more reason why dogs are superior to cats. Dogs won't infect your with reckless stupidity.

:eek: OH CRAP!!!! so thats why im feelin so dizzy natious stupid and schizophrenic, and why all the women who eat my faeces suddenly want to have sex wiv me, i thought my crap was just a natural aphrodisiac.

GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!!!!!! how do i get rid of it?!?!?!

Most dogs eat cat shit among other things so dont go on no cat better then dog rant.

1. The 'article' is just someone's blog, not any kind of real news source.

2. The 'article's author uses as his main cited source what he himself calls "THE TABLOID MEDIA"

Take a reality pill and call me in the morning.

Most dogs eat cat shit among other things so dont go on no cat better then dog rant.

My dog doesn't eat shit. It eats high end dog food that is probably healthier than most people's diets.

The proportion is even worse on this forum.

And I don't help those stats much... WEEEEEEE~~~

Dogs won't infect your with reckless stupidity.

:D

this thread dead should be

http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2006/12/the_rise_of_tox.html

Seemingly 40% of the world's population are infected and are somewhat crazy. Also cat shit makes women horny.
There's an obvious connection here. 40% is just 10% short of the proportion of women. Liking cat shit is crazy. If cat shit makes 80% of women horny, thus they are crazy.

I had a dog once, damn thing would never stop eating the cat's liter and shit... fucking brought it up to me like it wante to play cath, stupid thing. Worst time of my life that dog, cute, but a fucking hadfull. Gave it to a friend and never looked back, Go cats lol :D

Parasites my ass, they are aliens come to earth to take control of the population. God damn parasitic aliens. Toxoplasma gondii my ass, more like Goa'uld and Yeerks.