Mind-controlling parasites (and the parasites that infect them)

I thought of my ex-wife.

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I didn’t check this out earlier – assumed that it was a click-bait headline for an article about Fox and Friends.

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Apparently it is turtles all the way down…

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…as said a diver climbing out of the water, covered with bite marks.

Possibly this one?

(edit:
http://boingboing.net/2014/03/26/invasion-of-the-mind-altering.html )

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Yes!

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Today I Learned that the word for a parasite of a parasite is “hyperparasite.”

This virus, however, is not one of those. Assuming the article describes the relationship correctly, it’s a symbiont.

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