Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior

Re:Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior by deanresin on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @08:36PM (#40518830)

My ex girlfriend's family used to have their cat litters right next to the kitchen table. Any bad behavior or decisions I've made since then I'm going to blame on her and my "taxoplasmosis".

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Re:Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior by chasil on Thursday May 30, 2024 @12:12AM (#40519995)

Toxoplasmosis is a debilitating disease which is suffered by those who cannot control a latent infection of toxoplasma gondii.

This is likely not you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis

The behavioral changes are a different matter.

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Re:Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior by odyssey7 on Thursday May 30, 2024 @12:37AM (#40520124)

I feel that naming one specific presentation of an infection for the pathogen isn’t so tenable now that we’ve realized there are multiple presentations.

Consider, is subclinical TB not TB?

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Re:Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior by aitchnyu on Thursday May 30, 2024 @02:55AM (#40520921)

So Toxo makes you subscribe to too many cat subs and overwhelmingly likely to not harm you?

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Re:Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior by setgree on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @10:10PM (#40519422)

That’s gross regardless of whether it led to you being mind controlled!

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Re:Toxoplasma Gondii significantly alters wolf behavior by robertlagrant on Thursday May 30, 2024 @07:03AM (#40522306)

Taxoplasmosis is where you look at how much tax you pay vs what you get, and freak out.

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