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This Scientific Americans 60 Seconds Science. I'm Wit Games, got a minute.A bad infection can make you delirious1, but mind clears once germs are gone, usually. Not so when researchers recently injected mice with taxol plasma2 Ganede, this parasites4 protozoan only get amorous5 inside gut6 of cat. The resulting fertilized7 eggs wind up a litter box , their challenge is grow up get back inside the feline8. The solution gets eaten by a mouse that gets eaten by a cat. The expelled egg wait until it become a meal for a mouse, the parasites then move to the mouse's brain where they stop the rodent9 from fearing the smell of cat urine, the delirious mouse approaches Lafite and * , parasites find its way home. In past trials mice almost always died of this kind of infection, this study use weaker strains taxol and the mice recovered but they stay blowzy about the cat's smell, that curable infection can cause permanent behavior changes is worrisome, because the same parasite3 infects 60 million people in the US alone, most cases produce no symptoms but some evidence links chronic10 infections to schizophrenia and a cluster other mental illness known unscientifically as crazy cat lady syndrome11.
1 delirious | |
adj.不省人事的,神智昏迷的 | |
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2 plasma | |
n.血浆,细胞质,乳清 | |
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3 parasite | |
n.寄生虫;寄生菌;食客 | |
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4 parasites | |
寄生物( parasite的名词复数 ); 靠他人为生的人; 诸虫 | |
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5 amorous | |
adj.多情的;有关爱情的 | |
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6 gut | |
n.[pl.]胆量;内脏;adj.本能的;vt.取出内脏 | |
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7 Fertilized | |
v.施肥( fertilize的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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8 feline | |
adj.猫科的 | |
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9 rodent | |
n.啮齿动物;adj.啮齿目的 | |
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10 chronic | |
adj.(疾病)长期未愈的,慢性的;极坏的 | |
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11 syndrome | |
n.综合病症;并存特性 | |
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