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Researchers uncover parasites that manipulate their hosts into performing bizarre and sometimes fatal behaviors. Swimming lessons, dangerous attractions, and unauthorized construction projects linked to biological manipulation.
Tiny invader arrives with genetic instructions and absolutely no production department. Host cell supplies the ribosomes, raw materials, energy, and unwilling labor.
One of the founders of modern hygiene became so convinced that cholera required the right combination of microbe, environment, and host conditions that he swallowed the organism himself to demonstrate that the bacterium alone wasn't sufficient.