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 ...

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease that you can get from cats, contaminated food, and more. It causes symptoms similar to the flu, such as chills, fever, body aches, fatigue, and headaches. The ...

As temperatures drop, outdoor cats may spend more time indoors, which calls for attention to a health threat — Toxoplasma gondii, T. gondii, also known as the “cat parasite.” This infectious agent ...

The woman called with a bittersweet announcement. The good news: She was pregnant. The bad news: She was returning the kitten she had bought from Joan Bernstein, who breeds Tonkinese cats in Center ...

To reduce the occurrence of toxoplasmosis, scientists at the University of Zurich decided that they would pounce on oocyte production, the stage in the toxoplasmosis parasite’s life cycle that is ...

Toxoplasma gondii has the capacity to infect any warm-blooded animal. The parasite circulates in nature primarily in three infectious stages: the tachyzoite, the bradyzoite (with the capacity to form ...

We all have at least one friend who posts nothing but cat pictures to their social media feeds and can't make it through lunch without at least a few stories about their beloved feline. Maybe that ...

New research suggests free-roaming cats are likely to blame in the spread of the potentially deadly Toxoplasma gondii parasite to wildlife in densely populated urban areas. New UBC research suggests ...

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 ...