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RegularJoe@lemmy.world to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

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

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

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RegularJoe@lemmy.world to Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago
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The discovery may lead to ways to diagnose and treat the condition that many people don't realize they have.
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  • BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    That would explain the current state of the USA

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      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.

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        Holy shit we should have let them chug the Ivermectin.

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

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

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      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

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        They’re in the Lead

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          subtle. Nice.

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

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      *world

      Ftfy

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    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.

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    This is….horrifying.

    And yet, it tracks.

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

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      My cat says “Mind your own business. There are no ‘brain parasites’”.

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

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    What can be done to get rid of latent toxoplasmosis?

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      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

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    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.

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    Rfk Jr approves this post

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