FW: Rabies

Rabies is a crazy little pest. I read an article once about how the tiny parasite gets into an animal's head, and changes its actions. Let's use a raccoon for an example. The rabies parasite somehow gets into the raccoon's bloodstream. It could be initially through food or water contaminations or I think it can even be inhaled. The parasites travel pretty quickly to the brain and situate themselves near the part of the brain that produces the hormones. They cause the raccoon to have uncontrollable urges to bite anything that moves. They change the chemical balance in the raccoon's brain to make it think that it needs to bite other animals. When the rabies reaches a later stage, the raccoon starts to foam at the mouth. Why? Because the little parasites have been breeding and now they've outgrown their host. They need a way to escape from the raccoon's body and enter some other host. So the raccoon bites a little kid and the foam from its mouth is swimming with parasites that slip easily into the kid's bloodstream. The raccoon's brain functions are so messed up that the raccoon can't survive after the rabies has left its system. The little parasites then set up shop and start to multiply and replenish the kid's brain, start to commandeer his thoughts and actions and make him go crazy and die, just like the raccoon. It's a pretty messed up world we live in. It's hard to imagine being hijacked by something you can't even see.