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**Ghost of 51:50**

A parasite found in cats is tampering with people's brains and driving them to suicide, research suggests.

Scientists have shown that men and women infected with a bug that breeds in cats' stomachs and worms into people's brains are seven times more likely to attempt suicide than others.

They say that Toxoplasma gondii may tinker with the delicate chemistry of the brain and screening people for it could help identify those at risk of taking their own lives.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...z23zEsYFW5

doomed

**s00n**

A friends father died of amoebic meningitis these small micro organisms were eating his brain, and reproducing from it at the same time, it was one of the most painful deaths.

**Strategos**

That is from the opening scene of "The Wrath of Khan."

Good movie.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 115497 08-19-2012 12:48 PM

There are a few amazing things in this article:

1.) One-third of the world's population is estimated to have the parasite.

2.)All pregnant women are advised to not empty cat litter b/c the parasite can literally kill the baby if the mother breathes it in.

3.)Most people did not contract the parasite by direct contact with cats. Most people got it from eating undercooked meat (lamb, pork, venison) that was contaminated by cat turds O--O .....or from drinking water that had cat turds in it.

4.)Cats are the only animal that produces this parasite - in some weird freak of nature

doomed

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Next Study: Are dogs affected by the parasite due to their frequent consumption of cat turds ??

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 113594 08-19-2012 12:53 PM

Already posted over 6 months ago.

**RegisteredLOPGuest**

s00n Wrote:

A friends father died of amoebic meningitis these small micro organisms were eating his brain, and reproducing from it at the same time, it was one of the most painful deaths.

holy f*ck.

**Strategos**

I knew those vermin were evil!

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