Virus that 'makes humans more stupid' discovered
Source: The Independent (UK)
A virus that infects human brains and makes us more stupid has been discovered, according to scientists in the US.
The algae virus, never before observed in healthy people, was found to affect cognitive functions including visual processing and spatial awareness.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins Medical School and the University of Nebraska stumbled upon the discovery when they were undertaking an unrelated study into throat microbes.
Surprisingly, the researchers found DNA in the throats of healthy individuals that matched the DNA of a virus known to infect green algae.
Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/virus-that-makes-humans-more-stupid-discovered-9849920.html
Really looking forward to the responses to this...
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Does ACA cover it?
global1
(25,285 posts)They know that this will bankrupt our government if ACA covers it. With pre-existing conditions re-instated at least they can deny coverage.
Even a 21 day quarantine won't help. And heaven forbid if some terrorist gets a hold of the virus. An epidemic has been restrained for years and isolated primarily in southern states of the U.S. - but due to the lack of being able to keep people from traveling - there has been a slow and constant spread to major cities toward the north from east to west.
If a vaccine is not discovered soon this virus can infect all of the U.S. by 2016 and then we are really in trouble.
wandy
(3,539 posts)They call themselves Fox News.
J-Stone
(3 posts)Republican voters don't want to repeal the ACA. Many of them love it. They want to repeal Obamacare. Many of them have been asked if they like the ACA and they say it is much better than Obamacare. It is the man's name that makes it a bad idea.
joshdawg
(2,652 posts)LOL!
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)bananas
(27,509 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,867 posts)FOX NEWS are affected. Can't we quarantine that building?
ReRe
(10,597 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)the protective gear used on the front lines of the Ebola battles! It's gonna take a shitload of these items to handle the situation in DC. And Gohmert! For god's sake someone quarantine that festering, sputtering primary carrier of this affliction!
valerief
(53,235 posts)Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Small sample population and the article fails to mention how wide a difference and whether other factors may weigh in.
LeftishBrit
(41,212 posts)Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)My mother thinks that the Southern heat is what's baked their brains.
Going on that theory, the same applies to the desert cons in Arizona like McCain, Brewer and Arpaio.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)I guess we know what happens when you drink pond water....
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)- Our bodies are biological apparatuses which are designed to repair themselves if provided the proper nutrients and other materials in the correct proportions to do so. But our world is now bathed in chemicals our bodies were never intended to be exposed to. Chemicals that we shouldn't be touching, let alone consuming. And our food is likewise bathed in pesticides, fertilizers and other toxic chemicals, not to mention the unknowns of altering the DNA of plants to produce poisons for bugs that supposedly won't harm us. And whose plant RNA has later been found floating around looking for something to do in our livers, kidneys and pancreases. So to find algae DNA in our throats that makes people stupid shouldn't surprise us.
It's not the only thing making us stupid......
lame54
(35,331 posts)Vinca
(50,319 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)just us
(105 posts)This algae works just like the right wing purge of civic education in our schools. We are told they need to only know math and language.
Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)We'd just go back to the same "diagnoses" of demonic possession and village-idiocy.
valerief
(53,235 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)Now that's stupid.
jeff47
(26,549 posts)to see what happens. As a result, correlation is what we're left with. And it's how we've determined what the vast majority of human diseases do. For example, we haven't injected healthy people with HIV to prove it causes AIDS.
To get anything meaningful, we'd need a larger sample size - this study is just a reason to go gather that larger sample size.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)Then of course, the GOP could actually be a virus which would mean we are in a whole new dimension that we were not even aware of
Nitram
(22,915 posts)...and other neurological complications. Toxoplasma gondii infection has even been correlated with increased probability of being in a car accident.
appalachiablue
(41,182 posts)Nitram
(22,915 posts)Just google "toxoplasmosis."
father founding
(619 posts)See Mitch, If it wasn't for Obamacare They wouldn't have found it in You.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)I don't know you, but when I have a cold, my IQ drops dramatically.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)minidriver
(57 posts)nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)KinMd
(966 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)My son has problems with both
roamer65
(36,747 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,050 posts)Or the McCain/Palin bumper sticker that's still on their car.