Oh yeah, most of the articles seemed to try and conflate these sort of things, the first article I read about toxoplasmosis just said it makes mice take more risks, and didn’t try any sort of cross species assumptions, either of cats or humans who are also infected.
Problem is some smartass looking for clicks tried to rewrite it as though infected mice loved cats, and proposed it affected humans the same way (because humans obviously have no use for small predators to keep pests in check). Humans too often enjoy a good anthromorphization.
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