【海外の反応】猫好き必見？ 人間の性格や事故率まで変える脳寄生虫トキソプラズマがヤバい

Toxoplasma is harmless for most people. It can cause problems in fetal development, which is why pregnant women shouldn't clean litterboxes. But if you as an adult are exposed to it, your immune system would almost certainly handle it just fine.

This was obviously written by a dog

There's a Thing Called Red or Yellow Journalism and this article is perfect example of those. While not exactly the same things as those two it uses scare tactics while admitting that this carried in 30 to 50% of the population and while cats are a carrier there's no direct link indicating that people who have this have any of the issues that they're claiming it causes. They recommend the normal things to do like cook meat thoroughly, wash your hands, and pregnant women should stay away if possible from cleaning cat boxes but all the scare tactics that they use in the headlines are nothing more than scare tactics and clickbating. Do you own research and avoid scare tactics.
YMMV

Can you take a test to see if you have it?

Cats are awesome. Now, if you'll excuse me I just got out of a three car pile up and need to invest my life savings into temptations treats, plastic springs, live mice, keyboards, boxes, and things that are easily knocked off a counter.

The following have been identified as being risk factors for T. gondii infection in humans and warm-blooded animals:

* by consuming raw or undercooked meat containing T. gondii tissue cysts.\[33\]\[56\]\[57\]\[58\]\[59\] The most common threat to citizens in the United States is from eating raw or undercooked pork.\[60\]
* by ingesting water, soil, vegetables, or anything contaminated with oocysts shed in the feces of an infected animal.\[56\] Cat fecal matter is particularly dangerous: Just one cyst consumed by a cat can result in thousands of oocysts. This is why physicians recommend pregnant or ill persons do not clean the cat's litter box at home.\[60\] These oocysts are resilient to harsh environmental conditions and can survive over a year in contaminated soil.\[36\]\[61\]
* from a blood transfusion or organ transplant\[62\]
* from transplacental transmission from mother to fetus, particularly when T. gondii is contracted during pregnancy\[56\]
* from drinking unpasteurized goat milk\[57\]
* from raw and treated sewage and bivalve shellfish contaminated by treated sewage\[63\]\[64\]\[65\]\[66\] [link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii)