[Bon mots]

Toxoplasmosis carried by cats is damaging people, and may be more destructive than malaria.

Long known to be deadly to the unborn, it is now clinically proven to severely damage human brains.

Long known to alter the behavior of infected mice and rats - it actually encourages them to commit suicide by seeking out cats. Infected rodents find the smell of cat urine irresistible and they seek out the cat... which results in them being eaten, thereby passing the disease on to the cat... etc.
Now, we find out it changes human behavior and alters our brains. Scary and very true...

More Articles
Mood altering parasite makes women more friendly and men into jerks.

Mood altering parasite – Fox News article

Large increase in traffic accidents thanks to toxoplasmosis infections

Schizophrenia and toxoplasmosis – Increases chances of schizophrenia

Changes in testosterone levels from Toxoplasmosis infection

Reconsider the carpaccio...

[Bon mots]

There are many that think that Toxoplasmosis may be responsible for changing the political affiliation of people - that is, it makes you vote Democrat and support illogical economic and social positions.

[Biggirl]

PING this one over to Slings And Arrows. :)=^..^=

[Ken H]

Does it give you bad hair, too?

[109ACS]

It’s the Zombie parasite.

http://www.zombiehub.com/zombie-parasite.html

[ari-freedom]

Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia?

[109ACS]

Now we know how the term “Crazy Cat Lady” came into use.

[ari-freedom]

What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia?

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Quit making fun of me or you'll pay

Shot at 2008-03-06

[GreatMan]

Ping

[exDemMom]

Ah, yes. The cats infect you with Toxoplasmosis, and the next thing you know, you keep feeding the little beasts. And scooping their litterboxes. And spending megadollars on vet visits.

Oh, the humanity of it all.

Seriously... not all cats have it, and it's not really an issue for people who have kept cats for prolonged periods of time.

The most common mode of transmission of toxoplasmosis is through consumption of undercooked meat. So far, the studies of the effects of toxoplasmis on human behavior are inconclusive. The claim by Jaroslav Flegr that toxoplasmosis infections specifically cause people to have car accidents (that is, above the rate at which any illness predisposes people to not drive well) is not supported by data.

[st.eqed]

My dog tells me all the time that cats are evil and the spawn of satan. So I am not surprised.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Mood altering parasite makes women more friendly and men into jerks.

Just wonderful. Now Mrs. Tick is going to be *utterly convinced* that our kitty gave toxoplasmosis to both of us.

[Liberty Valance]

[IrishPennant]

Bump for later reading

[Liberty Valance]

[Carriage Hill]

I don’t even want to know what’s in those bottles on the shelves behind him.

[cuban leaf]

Now I understand cat people. It all makes sense now.

[Miles the Slasher]

Yet one more reason to hate cats.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I believe it! I found an abandoned kitten three weeks ago. Fed her with an eye dropper, now she is getting me well trained to her beck and call.

OMG! SHE IS LOOKING AT ME RIGHT NOW!

[Scoutmaster]

Let's not forget that by the time she was 24, Eleanor Abernathy had earned an MD from Harvard Medical School and a JD from Yale Law School.

Then . . . it was the cats.