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Halloween Post: Parasites That "Zombify" Their Hosts

Photo: Axel Rouvin, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC-BY-2.0 license.Zombies may still be a thing of fiction, but some parasites more or less turn their hosts into the walking dead.These masters of mind control manipulate their hosts from within, causing them to act in self-destructive ways that ultimately benefit the parasite.Read my latest National Geographic Weird & Wild post: Meet 5 "Zombie" Parasites That Mind-Control Their Hosts.