Could mental illness be infectious?

From The Times via RobotWisdom:

"...Chlamydia is already known to cause considerable human misery. Not only is one strain of the micro-organism responsible for Britain's 'epidemic' of sexually transmitted disease, but another variant can cause a serious respiratory-tract infection similar to Sars."

"Now comes the surprising finding by a German research team that chlamydia may be linked with schizophrenia. Dr Rudolf Wank, an immunologist at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, has reported recently that schizophrenic patients are much more likely to be infected with one or more variants of chlamydia. More importantly, he found that targeting the bug with specially treated immune cells improved the patients' symptoms dramatically..."

Could mental illness be infectious? - The Times, September 30, 2005

Dr Rudolf Wank.