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return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 7 days ago

You're likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you've never heard of

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You're likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you've never heard of

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 7 days ago
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Fatal brain infection was thought to be from profound immune suppression. Not anymore.
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    ha! it was a trap. have fun starving, fucker!

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    The virus is the human polyomavirus 2, commonly called either the JC virus or John Cunningham virus, named after the poor patient from whom it was first isolated in 1971. It shows up in the urine and stool of infected people and spreads via the fecal-oral route. Many people are thought to be infected early in life, and blood testing surveys have suggested that 50–90 percent of adults have been exposed at some

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    This would explain a lot tbh

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    You’ve also been exposed to brain eating ameba, repeatedly.

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    OMG take this down! Do you know how much energy it will take to make my host forget this!?

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    FYI his name is Steve and we’re in love.

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    Oh good. Not like I’m using that for anything

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    Isn’t this the plot of The Walking Dead?

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    polyomavirus 2

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