From The Daily Mail:
Found: The viral infection that makes nearly HALF of us more stupid (and it lasts for YEARS)
Nearly half of us could be infected with a virus which makes us more stupid, scientists have found.
The startling discovery suggests that millions may be carrying a long-lasting infection which dulls the brain.
Scientists found the virus living in the throats of 44 per cent of patients tested in a small US study.
Those who
were carrying the infection performed worse in intelligence tests, even
when education and age were taken into account.
The virus - called chlorovirus ATCV-1 - was previously only known to appear in green algae in freshwater lakes.
The
researchers, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the
University of Nebraska, have not established how the virus comes to
infect humans.....MORE
Previously on the stupid channel:
Thanks, I think, to a reader.
"I would be willing to wager that if an average citizen from Athens of
1000 BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the
brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and
companions. We would be surprised by our time-visitor’s memory, broad
range of ideas and clear-sighted view of important issues. I would also
guess that he or she would be among the most emotionally stable of our
friends and colleagues."...
