Parasite turns mice into mindless cat fighting zombies by hijacking immune cells

Saturday December 16, 2017 more stories from this episode The parasite’s life cycle

Normally if a mouse sees a cat, it scuttles away in the other direction, but that’s not what happens after mice get infected with a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. Once inside

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