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Toxoplasma are kinda like the Gould. Can they help us heal too?

I believe it's spelled Goa'uld :) Who knows, but the very fact that a parasite can co-opt our sense of smell to make cat urine smell not as bad, is saying something.

I also assume that’s what mrfusion meant, but there is also Sabine Baring-Gould who wrote (among other works) “The Book of Were-Wolves”, which is clearly relevant to the topic of mysterious healing powers:

https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Were-Wolves

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