"If this puppet-master behavior were not strange enough, scientists have now found out how the parasite may change rat behavior."

"Just as startling, reports Sapolsky, the parasite simultaneously is 'able to hijack some of the circuitry related to sexual arousal' in the male rat..."

"Toxoplasma may be exquisitely unusual among parasites. ... For now, you can just let your inner Cronenberg take matters from here…."