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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Toxoplasma reproduces only in cats, but can infect any warm-blooded mammal, including deer and humans. As the definitive host of toxoplasmosis, cats are the only host in which the protozoan reproduces ...

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 ...

A small study of older adults in Iberia suggests that infection with the common parasite Toxoplasma may be linked to 'inflammaging' and frailty in older adults. When you purchase through links on our ...