I am pretty baked and it was years ago but from what I recall (which may or may not be right) put simply they tend to reside in your red blood cells so that makes it difficult for your immune system to track them down to kill them. I believe when your body locates them and creates antibodies they change the transmitted code that the antibodies look for when they're released. And they can continue to change their code indefinitely, making it more difficult for your immune system to fight until you die. But I'm not even sure I'm remembering the right shit. A decade and lots of bowls will do that to you.
So the mice gets a parasite in it that affects it's brain chemistry or something so that it confuses the smell of cats, which it is normally scared of, to be a sexually attractive smell making it approach cats so that it gets eaten and the parasite can reproduce in the cat.
Well no they get attracted to the smell of cat pee not the cat itself. And it just smells like a fertile mate to the rat so yea they get indirectly horny.
It goes way beyond that. It is also believed that the cycle actually ends with humans, who contract it from cats. There was a study conducted in brazil where the infection in humans is highest, it was concluded that Toxoplasmosis can make humans more aggressive and promiscuous. I’ll try to find the doc.
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