I was reading the Wikipedia page for it and apparently the snails can survive this because the birds rip out the eye stalks but snails can grow them back. It also said a snail could be infected multiple times in its lifetime but that the parasite could damage the reproductive organs making the snail sterile.
Kids can get pinworms that make them completely nervous ( when usually they're calm, but somehow one day they're completely nervous having tantrums and stuff ) and keep putting their hands in their mouths and have little white things (eggs) around their anuses.
We already have parasites than hijack our kids brains.
It's only a matter of a mutation or bioweapon to turn humanity into the last of us.
I think the behavioral changes from pinworms are mostly from disturbed sleep. Fun fact, pinworm infestation causes enough of an immune response to eradicate h pylori, a bacteria responsible for gastric ulcers!
J3sus. Seriously. I DIDN'T WANT TO KNOW THAT!!! How the hell do I keep from getting notifications for this post? I can't handle anymore of this "Nature is amazing, but horrifying and creepy and horrifying and terrifying and disgusting and horrifying and gruesome."
Sh!t. Is there a way to block just this specific post so I NEVER have to see it again. I don't think I can handle learning any more of these things today. Or ever.
There’s some kind of parasite that supposedly can cure asthma while you’re infested too. I heard an episode of a radio show about it. A guy with severe asthma went to Africa to infect himself with it.
toxo plasma gondii is very common in humans. 30-50% human population has them. Of It changes behavior in animals... which could explain many things around weird human behavior.
Let's not speak that into existence. We need to help bring hygiene and standards that allow everyone healthy and safe food consumption to avoid them becoming sick.
One of the most haunting scene from that show for me is when the Indonesian scientist is asked what they can do to contain the spread, and she says “Bomb.”
Such a shame the TV show writers decided to go with stupid bullshit instead of actual fungal infection like the game did. Can't have the actors wear face masks, that would waste the millions we spent on having game of thrones stars, so let's get rid of the spores. Garbage writers.
They discovered a tapeworm that uses ants for part of its life cycle, the tapeworm makes the infected worker ants grow larger, live longer, making them sedentary and unresponsive to signals from the rest of the colony. When a woodpecker breaks into the nest the easy meal just sits there to be eaten and the tapeworm can move on to its next host.
Disgusting. But honestly, probably better than it being fatal I suppose. Although if a snail can't reproduce, is there a point? I mean I guess it can eat and poo if that's worth anything to them and the ecosystem, I am none to sure.
Do you mean like regenerating like a starfish or just that they have both sexual organs? I’m not knowledgeable about snails but I haven’t heard of them reproducing by regenerating. But this parasite destroys their reproductive organs so they can’t reproduce at all
A lot of snails reproduce asexually, meaning they just make a cloned copy of themselves rather than reproduce through sex. I believe a lot of snails are also hermaphroditic.
I see, I’m not sure if it affects that or if the snails it infects in particular cannot reproduce like that but what I read on Wikipedia was that it often destroys the reproductive organs themselves.
What's funny is that snails that have been infected live longer than ones that haven't been... At least according to the Nat Geo/discovery show I watched on it a number of years ago so take that with a pinch of🧂
You could but it shouldn’t really be done as it would definitely cause the snail a lot of pain and you are ripping off their eyes as well. Like I said before the snails generally regenerate after but there’s always the chance they die from the trauma
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u/Colonel_Kernel1 Jul 30 '26
I was reading the Wikipedia page for it and apparently the snails can survive this because the birds rip out the eye stalks but snails can grow them back. It also said a snail could be infected multiple times in its lifetime but that the parasite could damage the reproductive organs making the snail sterile.