Via Boing Boing, New Scientist reports that the malaria virus makes its victims more appealing to mosquitoes. Either evolution in action, or Intelligent Design folks like W must believe in a God who is truly a vicious bastard.

“What’s surprising is that this is not to the advantage of anybody but the parasite,” says Jo Lines of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. “This tremendously important interaction for the person and the mosquito—both can die as a result—is being engineered by the parasite.”