You're likely already infected with a brain-eating virus you've never heard of

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• shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The virus is the human polyomavirus 2, commonly called either the JC virus or John Cunningham virus, named after the poor patient from whom it was first isolated in 1971. It shows up in the urine and stool of infected people and spreads via the fecal-oral route. Many people are thought to be infected early in life, and blood testing surveys have suggested that 50–90 percent of adults have been exposed at some

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• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This would explain a lot tbh

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• Lexam@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  OMG take this down! Do you know how much energy it will take to make my host forget this!?

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• Skyrmir@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You’ve also been exposed to brain eating ameba, repeatedly.

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• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh good. Not like I’m using that for anything

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