{"id":1266,"date":"2015-06-11T13:01:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2015-06-11T13:01:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:01:08","slug":"wish-you-were-more-sociable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/11\/wish-you-were-more-sociable\/","title":{"rendered":"Wish you were more sociable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Get a flu vaccination:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Chris Reiber at Binghamton University in New York and Janice Moore at Colorado State University in Fort Collins] have found that <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.annepidem.2010.06.014\">people were far more sociable in the 48 hours following their annual flu vaccination<\/a> than in the 48 hours preceding it. &#8220;This is highly suggestive that the virus is manipulating human behaviour for its own ends; that is, to spread itself to other potential hosts,&#8221; says Reiber. Another possibility, however, is that humans subconsciously become more sociable in anticipation of needing help and support ahead of disease.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The main article suggests there may be a link between <i>Toxoplasma gondii<\/i> and schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22630230.200-the-cat-made-me-do-it-is-your-pet-messing-with-your-mind.html?full=true#\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (30 May 2015, paywall)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get a flu vaccination: [Chris Reiber at Binghamton University in New York and Janice Moore at Colorado State University in Fort Collins] have found that people were far more sociable in the 48 hours following their annual flu vaccination than in the 48 hours preceding it. &#8220;This is highly suggestive \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/06\/11\/wish-you-were-more-sociable\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}