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Bacteria enhances host insect's fertility with implications for disease control
- m463 3y agowow co-evolution is really crazy. Toxoplasmosis gondii is also weird - it can cause infected mice to increase risk taking, being eaten more easily by cats and propagating the disease.
- stuckinhell 3y agoit makes mice sexually attracted to cat urine too, and alters sexual behavior in all mammals including hyena's. The implications are beyond horrifying
- PicassoCTs 3y agoSo syphilis could make you more pretty and witty?
- ganzuul 3y agoOf all the strange and things to have happened in 2023, 'cooties are real' was perhaps the most unpredictable.
- vlovich123 3y agoHuh? Cooties are real. > Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children). Basically a child like name for STIs.