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Mind, Behavior Control Flu Vaccine
Are you really in control of your behavior? That question has been raised in a newly released neuroparasitology research report showing a flu vaccine with a parasite in it can control the human mind and thus, behavior. The parasite might have already infected forty percent of the human population, while the research raises self-determination human rights violation issues.
A parasite that lodges in the human brain and exerts influence behavior, such as how sexy, angry, frightened, and even how the host dresses might have have infected up to 40 per cent of the population, according to theTelegraph.
Zombie Reprogramming
Toxoplasma gondii, a single-celled parasite in domestic cats that impacts behavior, is estimated to infect 350,000 people a year in Britain.
Jaroslav Flegr, professor of evolutionary biology at Charles University in Prague, linked “Toxo” with disturbed behaviors, such as reckless driving and suicide risk.
“Infected men become introverted, suspicious and more likely to wear rumpled old clothes, but infected woman are just the opposite: in one study, they were usually well dressed when they arrived at the lab for interviews, and also more trusting and sociable,” the Telegraph reports.
Do other microbes induce similar changes? The leading candidate so far is influenza.
Binghamton University in New York State researchers used the ‘flu vaccine as a proxy to infect and record behaviour of 36 academic staff two days before, and two days after, being vaccinated.
The experiment result was astonishing:
Before the vaccination, according to the journal Annals of Epidemiology, they interacted with an average of 54 people a day; afterwards it shot up to 101. Yet the amount of time they actually spent with each person plummeted – from 33 to 2.5 minutes.
“Subjects who normally had very limited or simple social lives,” said one researcher, “were suddenly deciding they needed to go out to bars or parties” – the perfect places for a virus to find new hosts.
Researchers hope to learn more from such infections, such as how rewiring emotional circuits could impact developing psychiatric drugs.
“Even zombies, it seems, may have their uses,” the Telegraph says.
Such medical mind and behavior control research provokes self-determination human rights violations issues.
IntelHub says about the research developments, “While it is always a good thing to have a deeper understanding of how the human mind and body function, it is also important to keep an eye on the development of these types of studies, because there is always a possibility that they can be taken in a malevolent direction, with the intent to control populations.”
Sources: The Telegraph, IntelHub
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