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 ...

Cats aren’t the villains here, far from it. But understanding and mitigating the risks of Toxoplasma gondii is part of being a responsible pet parent.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...