Experts warn that sleeping with your cat may increase the risk of toxoplasmosis, a parasite that can infect humans without ...

In Episode 210 of Mother Earth News and Friends, Dr. Caroline Sobotyk, Assistant Professor of Clinical Parasitology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, joins us to discuss ...

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease that you can get from cats, contaminated food, and more. It causes symptoms similar to the flu, such as chills, fever, body aches, fatigue, and headaches. The ...

Across the globe, many cat owners pick up a pet-linked parasite without ever knowing. In the United States alone, more than 40 million Americans are infected with Toxoplasma gondii — a brain parasite ...

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 ...

But since toxoplasmosa gondii evolved to move between rats and cats, its neurological alterations are most prominent in those creatures. “If you’re a rat, and you get infected with it, it makes it so ...

A common parasite spread through undercooked pork and occasionally our cats might have more insidious health effects than previously suspected. New research suggests a link between infection with ...

Remember when your mom told you to be careful cleaning the cat’s litter box? Well, that same parasite everyone’s been avoiding might actually be the next big thing in brain medicine. Scientists just ...