Zombie warning: Scientist reveals zombification is REAL – and YOU could be infected

Once the rats get close, the cat eats them and then as humans interact with cats, such as cleaning their litter tray, the parasite can then infect a person.

Prof Aktipis said the parasite “somehow evolved to make a rat get turned on by the smell of cat urine, so it goes up to a cat and snuggles with it, and then it gets eaten which completes the life cycle of the toxoplasma”.

He asked: “If that’s not zombification, then what is?”

Previous research from 2016 discovered road rage and other inexplicable extreme bursts of anger may be caused toxoplasma gondii.

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