Rick Karnesky and Rebecca Cohen from Nerd Nite East Bay invited me to give a talk at an event called The Future is Here Festival. The event was run by Nerd Nite and Smithsonian Magazine, and the second day of the event was the Nerd Nite Global Fest. There were a bunch of really amazing talks, and I feel very lucky to have had an opportunity to speak with this amazing group of people. Here is my talk from the event:
Great Talk!
Are there lots of parasites that get in human brains?
Thank you!
I wouldn’t say “lots” of parasites get in to human brains, but there are certainly more than Toxoplasma gondii. A few that come to mind right now are rabies, Taenia solium, and Naegleria fowleri. Toxoplasma gondii is one of the few that I know of that can infect someone without them obviously knowing they are infected. The other parasites I mentioned usually cause major and obvious neurological damage, and can kill you.