Toxo keeps popping up again and again on behavioral and neurological research. I talked about it awhile ago in Toxoplasmosis and Personality Changes, but a friend brought to my attention the following paper:
Continue Reading →Infect Genet Evol. 2012 Mar;12(2):496-8. Epub 2012 Jan 25.Brain cancer mortality rates increase with Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in France.
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Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that lives in the intestines of cats, shedding eggs that can be picked up by rats and other animals. Humans and other animals can be hosts to Toxoplasma as well. People get infected by its eggs by handling soil or kitty litter. It is thought that for most people the parasite lives “quietly” in their bodies including the brain, and about half of ...