There's so much BS around toxoplasmosis online. Here's corrections for two common misconceptions:<p>1) Almost everyone who has it got it from eating undercooked meat, not from cats. France has the highest rate of toxoplasmosis in the world because of their propensity for rare meats: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5312802/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5312802/</a>.<p>2) Unless your cat lived a long part of it's life as an outdoor cat, it is very unlikely to have the parasite (like any parasite).
Somewhere there now has to be a person thinking "Hmm, I've been eating cat poop for a month now and have not seen any increase in business revenue - am I not eating enough?"
This trait and disease was discussed at length on the Joe Rogan podcast with Mcauley Culkin.<p>Apparently rats which catch toxoplasmosis are attracted to cat urine, which is an evolutionary reason for its development.<p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyb1xz7waY8" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyb1xz7waY8</a>
This is just p-hacking. It's really sad that in 2018 researchers are still pumping out garbage like this. All of these toxo behavior studies have been very poor quality. For example, there's been a few studies purporting that folks infected with toxo have significantly higher rates of schizophrenia. However, this is false, because toxo rates differ by 2-3x between first-world countries but yet the schizophrenia rate is mostly consistent.