Ok yeah.. I donât think the squirrels behaviour is necessarily T gondii.  and yes feeding a squirrel isnât going to result in you catching it even if that was the case unless you ate it..  Its probs just a pretty tame squirrelâŚ
 But @uninhibitedandunrepentant  some of your info is not correct.  There is a lot of evidence to support behavioural manipulation by T. gondii in intermediate hosts⌠It makes rats and mice loose their aversion to cat odours and it can cause them to be âattractedâ to cats. This increases the chance of the infected rat/mouse being eaten by a cat, enabling the parasite to get back into the cat which is the definitive host. Â
While most humans can be infected with T. gondii and not know about it, Epidemiological studies have found latent infections in humans has been linked changes in personality, as risk factor of schizophrenia and even increased risks of being involved in a road traffic accidentsâŚ
Basically the impacts of the parasite may have been underestimated. Â Â
Cook.T.B et al. âLatentâ infection with Toxoplasma gondii: Association with trait aggression and impulsivity in healthy adults. J of Psych Res, 60. p87-94
J. Flegr (2015) Host Manipulation by Toxoplasma gondii. Â Host Manipulations by Parasites and Viruses, Volume 7 of the series Parasitology Research Monographs pp 91-99Â
Flegr J (2013) Influence of latent Toxoplasma infection on human personality, physiology and morphology: pros and cons of the Toxoplasmaâhuman model in studying the manipulation hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Biology 216: 127-133Â
Flegr J, et al. ( 2009) Increased incidence of traffic accidents in Toxoplasma-infected military drivers and protective effect RhD molecule revealed by a large-scale prospective cohort study. BMC Infectious Diseases , 9:72Â
House PK, Vyas A, Sapolsky R (2011) Predator Cat Odors Activate Sexual Arousal Pathways in Brains of Toxoplasma gondii Infected Rats. PLoS ONE 6(8)Â
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