{"id":1163,"date":"2003-09-29T13:42:57","date_gmt":"2003-09-29T17:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2003\/09\/29\/\/"},"modified":"2003-09-29T13:42:57","modified_gmt":"2003-09-29T17:42:57","slug":"1163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2003\/09\/1163\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Czech scientist Jaroslav Flegr of Charles University in Prague told Reuters his research showed a parasite called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/030922\/80\/e948j.html\" rel=\"external\">toxoplasma gondii<\/a><\/strong> in cats, rabbits or raw meat, may make women reckless and friendly while making men jealous and morose.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just contracting the bug might not be life-threatening but infected women behind the wheel can be fatal, and those out for a stroll in busy traffic may be a hazard, he said. &#8220;It is not much fun. Our research has shown that toxoplasmosis raises 2.6 times the risk of a traffic accident by prolonging the reaction time of infected people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is not only about driving accidents but also about the probability of being run over by a car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Flegr said his research shows men infected by the bug tend to be quiet, withdrawn, suspicious, jealous and dogmatic. He said he could not find a reason for the different reactions.<\/p>\n<p>The illness could be responsible for up to one million of deaths on the roads worldwide, making it one of the deadliest parasitic diseases, second only to malaria, he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>(found by <a href=\"http:\/\/can_you_dig_it.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"external\">lola<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czech scientist Jaroslav Flegr of Charles University in Prague told Reuters his research showed a parasite called toxoplasma gondii in cats, rabbits or raw meat, may make women reckless and friendly while making men jealous and morose. Just contracting the bug might not be life-threatening but infected women behind the wheel can be fatal, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}