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c/health · by RegularJoe@lemmy.world · 1y

Common Brain Parasite Infecting Up To 30 Percent Of Americans Disrupts Neuron Communication

https://www.iflscience.com/common-brain-parasite-infecting-up-to-30-percent-of-americans-disrupts-neuron-communication-79695

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BroBot9000@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 1y (3 replies)

That would explain the current state of the USA

xep@fedia.io · 38 pts · 1y (2 replies)

The microscopic parasite, which infects nearly one-third of the world’s population, interferes with communication between brain cells.

And the rest of the world, too.

_stranger_@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y

Holy shit we should have let them chug the Ivermectin.

benni@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

That would explain the current state of the rest of the world.

WhiteHotaru@feddit.org · 29 pts · 1y (5 replies)

I hadn’t „30% Americans are infected by a brain altering parasite“ on my bingo card.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 1y (2 replies)

sadly the answer ain't that easy. A lot of people have this worldwide, numbers in the past have probably been even higher. US stupidity is a lot more complex

Numenor@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They're in the Lead

Taleya@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y

subtle. Nice.

jbrains@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y

I had it, thanks to this series from 2016: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4877736/

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 1y

*world

Ftfy

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y

Toxoplasma gondii is common parasite that could be infecting up to a third of the human population. Most infected people don't even know they have it, but now researchers have potentially devised a way to detect it in human blood. 

BertramDitore@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 1y

This is….horrifying.

And yet, it tracks.

scytale@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1y (2 replies)

This is the one you can get from cats right? So someone who owns a cat has a high chance of having it.

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

My cat says "Mind your own business. There are no 'brain parasites'".

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I trust your cat, seems he knows what he's talking about.

Aninie@feddit.online · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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RegularJoe@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I'm not a doctor. But here are some relevant sites:

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/toxoplasmosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20356249

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9756-toxoplasmosis

SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

A brain parasite? Hey, here is a prime opportunity for RFK Jr to put his hate for vaccines and his love for ivermectin to the test.

Tronn4@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Rfk Jr approves this post