Pregnancy often changes how you think about your surroundings, including your pets. Cats, especially, come under scrutiny because of a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, which can pose risks to your ...

Toxoplasma gondii poses serious risks during pregnancy and to those with weakened immune systems, and Clinicians must ...

Domestic cats, while a great source of comfort to millions, are the largest carriers of toxoplasmosis that cause zoonosis, a study published in Nature Communications shows. Toxoplasma gondii (T.gondii ...

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 ...

Four sea otters in California are reported to have died from infection with a rare strain of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which is primarily found in wild and domestic cats and commonly transmitted ...

According to estimates, about a third of the world's population is infected with the single-celled parasite Toxoplasma gondii, the pathogen of toxoplasmosis. Although harmless for most people, the ...

There's a parasite living in the brains of 40 million Americans, and most of these human hosts are completely unaware.