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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

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

ceejayoz 10y ago
Toxoplasmosis may have similar (if slightly more subtle) effects on humans: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/273/1602/2749 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/273/1602/2749
teddyh 10y ago
“Wanna go to the top of a ten-storey building?” http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fungus http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fungus