Take the wheel
As promised, an explanation for why people in France drive so hazardly.
Toxoplasma gondii has a life cycles dependent on cats and rats and its effect on the brain is meant to make it easier for cats to catch rats, but sometimes cat excrements end up in farm animals' food, infecting them and passing it on to us. You only risk infection from meat if you don't cook it properly so it's mostly a problem in countries where heating meat can be a problem. France is the only European country where so many people are infected because French cuisine involves so much raw or mildly cooked meat.
This is of course not the only reason why French people are such aggressive drivers, but it does seem to be strongly linked to toxoplasma gondii.
(Also, if people don't want to get help after an accident, get help anyway because they might have brain damage)
France
14th June 2016
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This...this I would only let 5th grader to write.
This show such and incompetence of understanding infections and blood tests that I can't even....I can't even fathom that a usually well research comic like this would do this!
Yes. Many people, up to 86% of a population have ANTIBODIES against toxoplasma.
That doesn't mean these people has toxoplasma, it only means their immune system at some point fought toxoplasma.
And it certainly dose not mean that 86% of the population has and ACTIVE toxoplasma infection!!!!
Do get your facts right!
Sincerely a Danish teacher in pathology and genetics.