Re: A true touch of insanity?

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:24:03 -0800 (PST), Damien Valentine
<valends3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

:On Jan 7, 5:58 am, Brian Davis <brda...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
:
:> It doesn't. Think rabies. There are lots of other communicable
:> diseases that are thought to influence behavior (including some that
:> like those intimate mucus membranes).
:
:To get back on-topic, rabies and similar diseases make hosts go crazy
:because the precise way in which they go crazy spreads the disease.
:Rabies spreads through saliva, for instance, so it makes the host
:secrete a lot of saliva (foaming at the mouth) and inject it into
:other hosts (going mad and biting people).  If you want to make a
:similar crazy-bug, spread through handshaking, the particular form of
:crazy the host endures must make them _really_ want to shake hands.

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the *** drive (see David Cronenberg's "****vers").
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