A risk I’m willing to take for a lifetime of love, companionship and observing their infinite curiosity. (Definitely not written by an infected toxoplasmosis human)
It's crazy that this is so widespread, has brain disease implications, and yet there is no treatment for the hundreds of millions of people worldwide currently infected.
What is likely worse is that they can only document the worst cases, and cannot measure the subtler impacts on seemingly healthy infected people.
Maybe this is a major cause of ADD, or depression, or dyslexia, or autism, etc... we haven't done the research, so we aren't even bothering to test or treat a clearly extremely common infection. Its stupid.
Uh, neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD and autism are not something that happens later in life from an infection, it's something people are born with, and it's almost certainly down to genes; do some reading on MTHFR. Your comment is alarmist nonsense that isn't much better than "vaccines cause autism".
> Results showed that an individual infected with T. gondii was almost twice as likely to develop schizophrenia
T. gondii came for you. Please, start to panic and howl right now while running to buy my product.
Lets talk about p-hacking:
About 50% of the population had Toxoplasma gondii at some point in their lives
0.35% of the population are schizophrenic.
If Toxoplasma gondii really causes schizophrenia the correlation effect is not really strong or consistent. Without T. gondii "would be" 0.17%.
As the huge majority of the people that suffered T. gondii infection never develops schizophrenia we could also safely conclude that having cat pets PROTECTS against schizophrenia.
There is a vaccine for toxoplasmosis, but is only available in New Zealand & Australia for sheep. Toxoplasmosis infection in sheep causes pregnant sheep to miscarry (aka "spontaneous abortions").
