The Null Device blog: Mental illness a virus from outer space?

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)

There are 2 comments on "Mental illness a virus from outer space?":

Posted by: Your Cat http:// Fri Aug 9 21:28:20 2002

Look up "latent toxoplasmosis".

Posted by: acb http://dev.null.org Sat Aug 10 13:58:28 2002

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