This Shocking Parasite Is Taking Over The WorldAnd Its Next Target Is Your Brain

Neuro-parasite makes dead insect walk after taking control of its brain, internet shocked A video has recently surfaced on the internet where a neuro-parasite can be seen taking control of a dead bug and further making the decomposed insects walk

Nature is a place of wonders where one can find several unseen and unknown living beings in action that have the potential to leave your mind puzzled. As beautiful and exotic as it may sound, nature sometimes can also come out as weird and bizarre for a human mind to understand. In one such instance, a video has recently surfaced on the internet where a neuro-parasite can be seen taking control of a dead bug and further making decomposed insects walk.

Yes, you have heard it right. The video shared by Indian Forest Service officer Dr Samrat Gowda on his Twitter handle clearly shows the insect missing most of its insides including its abdomen but still moving quite naturally. As claimed in the video, the officer said that scientists have concluded that a neuro-parasite has taken control of the brain of the dead insect.

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Well, it is no Halloween movie. Some neuro-parasites indeed hijack their hosts’ brains and further make them act in horrific ways, leaving scientists as well as researchers shocked. This can be considered as one such instance that has gone viral on social media and has left people amazed and terrified at the same time.

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Do you know? according to scientists A neuro parasite has taken control of brain of this dead insect and making it walk…….. Zombie ☠️💀💀 pic.twitter.com/WBS8hNvH91 — Dr.Samrat Gowda IFS (@IfsSamrat) October 18, 2022

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Commenting on the video, a user wrote, “This is scary”, while another said, “Awesome.” Another user commented “Really? This is one of the most interesting things I have seen.”

Divulging more details about the insect, a Twitter user also wrote, “This is a cockchafer Beetle ‘infected’ with a Cordyceps fungus. They take control of the host’s movements, grow through an insect’s body, creating a network of filaments that commandeer the insect’s muscles.”

This is a cockchafer Beetle ‘infected’ with a Cordyceps fungi. They take control of the host’s movements, grows through an insect’s body, creating a network of filaments that commandeers the insect’s muscles — Sid 🇮🇳 (@sidduu96) October 18, 2022

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The beetle might not have died due to hunger and is prolly surviving on the stored nutrients — Sanskar Tarte (@sanskar_tarte) October 18, 2022

This is an amazing achievement. Perhaps further progress on this experiment will reach its apex. — Krushna Chandra Mishra (@Krushna86847422) October 18, 2022

The video has so far garnered over 4 lakh views and received more than 10, 000 likes. Notably, this is not the first time this video has surfaced on the internet. Earlier in 2020, the video was shared on Facebook with the same claim by a page titled ‘Festival of the Dead.’

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If we look a bit deep into it, the parasite-host interaction is a part of an act that has developed over millions of years. In such cases, a parasite usually taps into the host’s brain and neuronal circuitries to manipulate its cognitive functions.

The video shows the couple shooting the scenes at the exact locations in Mumbai where it was originally filmed. Sung by veteran playback singers duo Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar, the song shows the lead actors roaming around Mumbai, amidst a heavy downpour

Indu Rani Dubey, divisional railway manager (DRM) of Pune Division expressed her regret at the inconvenience caused. She said, 'Concerned staff have been given instructions on how to deal with passengers with dignity, politeness & decency'

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The cruise ship measures 1, 200 feet or 366 meters with 19-20 floors. The embedded space claims to host up to 5, 610 passengers and over 2, 350 crew membersThe parasite appears to be over 15 times longer than the spider's body and around the same size as the arachnid's abdomen.

Now a new video showing a giant parasitic worm bursting from the body of a huge Australian arachnid may push arachnophobes over the edge.

The disgusting spectacle was filmed by YouTube member BaskWith2 in Australia, who was shocked to see the writhing worm after spraying the spider with insecticide.

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His video seems to show a giant parasitic nematode, or roundworm, erupting from the dead spider's body in a spiral shape, before unfurling to look like a strand of wriggling wholemeal spaghetti.

Once the parasite is wriggling in a foamy sea of insecticide, the disgusted cameraman blasts it with more poison, as the video cuts out.

BaskWith2 writes on his YouTube page: Ok so I was just editing my latest montage and this huge spider came out, so I sprayed it and killed it, then this f*****n alien worm came out of it!

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The unfortunate spider likely ate its larvae, which then feasted on its host's body fluids, digestive glands, sexual organs and muscles to grow into a sizeable worm, ABC reported.

The spider would have become less mobile but because its vital organs were not eaten, probably remained alive, despite the parasite filling its abdomen and cephalothorax (mid-section).

Even without the insecticide, the spider would likely have met a grisly end, because the Mermithid nematode worm would have burst out of the creature's body, killing it.

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Ingeniously, the aquatic parasite may also have taken control of its host's nervous system, causing the probably thirsty spider to seek out water and possibly drown in it, so that the parasite could continue to survive in liquid.

Dr Brian Farrell, an entomologist at Harvard University, told The Huffington Post: Most have no obvious effect on us, and we are mostly unaware of their presence, but a few are large enough to cause diseases such as trichinosis.

While it can be treated with medication - and some 80 cases are reported in the UK every year - symptoms include a persistent dry cough and fever.

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• Their larvae is eaten by an unfortunate arthropod and the parasite drinks its body fluids and east its digestive glands and muscles to grow.

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From crustaceans that take the place of tongues to fungi that turn bugs into giant mushrooms, the parasites on this list are both disgusting and dangerous.

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While not every creepy crawler affects humans, they all have one thing in common: they do some terrible things to the hosts they infect.

T. gondii is a feline related parasite that is only able to reproduce inside cats and is commonly found in cat feces.

How does it get there you ask? When rats and mice are infected with T. gondii they actually become attracted to cats, specifically their smell, which is obviously supposed to trigger fear in the rodents. This effect is beneficial to the parasitic protozoa because cats easily kill the infected rodent and become the new host of T. gondii.

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Humans don't become attracted to cats when infected, but we do contract taxoplasma from the parasite which can cause brain damage to fetuses. This is the reason pregnant women are advised to stay away from cat litter.

Loa loa also known as the eye worm is a parasitic worm that lives within humans and other mammals' bodies specifically, as you might suspect, eyes.

L. loa is contracted from certain flies and after an infected fly bites its victim, the worm begins floating around tissue of the bitten host. The worm travels along the tissue, moving through the body until it stops and causes swelling and irritation in that spot.

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The creepiest thing about L. loa is that if it gets up to your eye tissue, you can actually feel it moving around in your eye. It can also be seen flowing around in there if its big enough.

V. Cirrhosa, also known as the candiru or vampire fish, is scary not so much because it drinks your blood from inside you, but because of how it can get inside you.

Normally the Amazon's candiru, a type of catfish that is typically a few inches long, follows the smell of ammonia to larger fish, where it climbs into their gills. When there it shoots out its sharp spine, lodging itself in its host's gills where it proceeds to engorge on blood.

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Here's the really scary part: when humans urinate we also excrete ammonia and there have been confirmed cases of the candiruswimming up a urine stream into the victim's penis. Once there it will drink your blood until you have the very invasive and very painful surgery to get it out.

Granted, this is very rare and more frequently

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