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Scientists gave healthy women a bacterial toxin. One desire faded fast.

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Inflammation may do more than make people feel sick. In a placebo-controlled study, triggering inflammation in healthy women reduced their desire to socialize and ability to feel pleasure, even after accounting for sickness symptoms.

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