Is insanity a virus from outer space? A US psychiatrist/author has posited the controversial theory that an unknown virus or parasite could be responsible for the fivefold increase in mental illness over the past 200 years. (via Psychoceramics)

Posted by: Your Cat | http:// | Fri Aug 9 22:28:20 2002

Look up "latent toxoplasmosis".

Posted by: acb | http://dev.null.org | Sat Aug 10 14:58:28 2002

Ah yes, the cat people/schizophrenia link. Though was cat ownership significantly less common more than 200 years ago?

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