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Re:Lasers activate killer instinct in mice by Karunamon on Friday January 13, 2017 @12:28PM (#13392603)
If you want some real nightmare fuel, imagine a fungus that gets into your body, drives you to a high place, destroys your motor control nerves so you're stuck in place, and then fatally bursts out a fruiting body from the back of your head, spreading more spores?

Be glad you're not an ant :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis

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Re:Lasers activate killer instinct in mice by teddyh on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:31PM (#13394869)
“Wanna go to the top of a ten-storey building?”

http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fungus

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Re:Lasers activate killer instinct in mice by ceejayoz on Friday January 13, 2017 @02:51PM (#13394131)
Toxoplasmosis may have similar (if slightly more subtle) effects on humans: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/273/1602/2749
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