Toxoplasmosis is classified as a zoonosis—meaning it is a disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans. Cats play a crucial role in this, as they are the definitive host for the pathogen ...

A cat parasite that can infect humans is called toxoplasma and it's a parasite that can live in all cat species. The parasite can spread to almost all other birds and mammals, not just humans, on ...

Q: My fiance and I adopted a cat, and his mother is insisting that we must give it back. She says you can get toxoplasmosis from having a cat in the house, and if I get pregnant, I’ll give it to the ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Lee Pickett has retired, but Creators continues to distribute columns from her archive. This one is from 2021. Q: I am planning to become pregnant, and a friend says I should give ...

A recent study in the journal EcoHealth connects white-tailed deer and free-roaming cats to the disease toxoplasmosis. In an email, lead author Gregory Ballash of Ohio State University’s Department of ...

Climate change has severely degraded the balance of the earth's ecosystem and allowed for the emergence and spread of numerous pathogens globally. T. gondii, for example, is a generalist zoonotic ...

A new analysis suggests that wild, stray, and feral cats living in areas with higher human population density tend to release—or “shed”—a greater amount of the parasite that causes the disease ...

A new study finds that domesticated and wild cats were more likely to poop out Toxoplasma gondii in areas densely packed with humans. Reading time 3 minutes Humans could be contributing to the spread ...

Dear Doctors: My fiance and I adopted a cat, and his mother is insisting that we must give it back. She says you can get toxoplasmosis from having a cat in the house, and if I get pregnant, I’ll give ...

Dear Doctors: My fiance and I adopted a cat, and his mother is insisting that we must give it back. She says you can get toxoplasmosis from having a cat in the house, and if I get pregnant, I’ll give ...