Zombie Parasites are REAL, and they're kinda terrifying... 

Yep

I love these videos, he could honestly talk abt anything

@@krispyk5854 ikr!!

These are so far all bangers sadly i dont see them as quick as the south park one

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As some who finished the manga, it surely is something.

2 sentence horror story I usually don’t rage at video games, so I got on my phone. Then I saw the outbreak alert.

‘I’m not going to wear a mask, rabies isn’t THAT bad.’

I suggest "Rant" by Chuck Palahniuk. It's a crazy rabies tale.

@vamp97 Some time later: starts foaming at the mouth

If a disease is too fatal, it would be less successful then a nonfatal disease since it will kill off their hosts to fast.

Same

;)

yes its a flatworm that will shatter chromosones causing for deformities anywhere from extra legs to eyes or legs in the mouth teeth on their back or really anything else but its random each time due to the literal shattering of them.

also, for toxo, it seemingly has effects on lifestock like cows, sheep, and pigs, more specifically they seem to make them more likely to miscarry. which is why some farmers are advocating against use of barn cats and instead allowing snakes or owls and other raptors hunt the mice, since they could in theory be more effective at hunting mice than cats are, since cats also hunt for songbirds and has left a huge impact on some songbird populations.

Cordyceps affects Ants. Do you know how much farther up the chain of evolution, humans are from Ants. No, the earth will expire from a heat death by the sun before cordyceps even gets close to Humans, for a fungi to even think to start evolving it would first need a reason to do so and that hasn't been given nor will it ever be given for them to infect humans. It simply only exists in the realm of science fiction like time travel or teleportation.

Non zero percent chance is crazy.

@@florentineeffect like i get it, the fungus is extremely unlikely to develop to become parasitic in humans, but there's still a miniscule chance that it might yet people eat it. its like eating parasitic worms that only affect some bird species because "they aren't parasitic to humans" yeah but WHY would you do that wtf

cordyceps becomes completely incapable of incubation at 90°F, and humans can develop fevers a few degrees above the normal temperature (97°F), and we can withstand fevers of around 102° without serious harm, unless it stays for a very long time. so while there technically is a non-zero chance, the fungus would have to evolve *significant* heat resistance to even be able to survive in the human body, and that's not even to mention the immune system fighting fungus or the fact that it would extremely likely not affect humans in the way it affects insects, due to the fact that we have far different neural structures and brains that are alien when compared to each other. so even if cordyceps could survive in our body heat, chances are it would be more similar to typical fungal infections rather than the complete takeover that ants experience.

I never thought of it that way

Indeed, a Wasp that kills spiders is scarier

Nah yall waiy

Just remember there's parasites that you can inject into the people you don't like

Yeah, those poor spiders.

Terrifies me too, it's so unnatural

@elise2892 They freak me out I can't even look at them without feeling squeamish.

@@sporeham1674 Have you seen that anime show with giant insects? a guy gets infected with the zombie snail parasites and runs outside so a giant bird can eat him!

They gross me out so much it’s not even funny.😖

They give me the ick, they're gross

The last of us fungus is literally based of the cordyceps fungus.

Most of these can’t infect humans

I completely forgot their Pokédex entries. But damn, it’s terrifying asf

@jamman3921 How poetic :) more like a pearl in a sea of shit lol

Uh No? Our brains are not parasites at all. That’s just not a thing. For one thing, human stem cells can turn into any type of human cell, neurons, muscle cells, bone cells, blood cells, whatever. They also all share *exactly* the same components, including the mitochondrial genes, which is flatly impossible if the brain isn’t the same organism with the same ancestry as the body. If that’s not convincing enough, we can also prove that brains aren’t a fungus. Because fungi actually have a wildly different genome from all animals (hence why they’re in a separate kingdom entirely). If the brain was a fungus or plant or protist, it’d be fairly obvious that the genome is so dramatically non-human that it’d be trivial to find, but it’s not, because the nervous system is a system that evolved as part of animals within animals. Also, yeah no shit we’re a multicellular organism. All animals are multicellular. That’s part of how they became animals in the first place.

It’s an interesting hypothesis, but one lacking any sort of grounding

​@@Someone-sq8imIt's a neat "What if" theory, completely unrealistic but would be really cool to read in a story

They also just look really disturbing. I have nightmares about them