Re: Immune system and parasites - Shroom, you there?
Hey there.
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>welcome to hell< funny comment. one needs humor to deal with these things.
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At this point I can't be sure Shroom was trying to be funny.
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parasites cause grasshoppers to drown themselves<
interesting..
parasites in mice cause, direct the mice not to fear the cat, so the
parasite infected mice run TO the cat to be eaten so the
parasites in the mice can finish thier life cycle in the cat. non
parasite infected mice run AWAY from the cat.
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We can presume this is the case. It would make sense from a strategic/survival p.o.v.
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most suicidal, necrophillic or self destructive people probably have filaria worms in the brain and blood and blood cell death (apopsis) from the worms.
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I must agree. It's seems quite possible. Everything I'm observing is leading me towards this conclusion.
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I think we should just eliminate intracellular and cellular trespassers.
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I think you may be heading in the right direction. To me that is a FACT.
Only time will tell.