• Question: Can parasites in the brain lead to a zombie like creature/s

    Asked by to Nancy, Michael, Emma, Elaine, Andrew on 25 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Nancy Carlisle answered on 25 Jun 2014:

      There are some parasites/viruses that affect brain function. For humans, rabies influences the brain and changes how agressive people are. This works for the rabies virus, because the virus needs to be transmitted from person to person. There aren’t any parasites that I know of that would make us like zombies though (thanks goodness :D) !

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      Andrew French answered on 26 Jun 2014:

      I guess, in theory this is possible to an extent, but it would seem quite unlikely to happen day to day! Also depends what you mean by Zombie 🙂

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