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Research Links Widespread Infections From Cats and Links To Schizophrenia and Suicide

No this was not a study paid for by the National Canine Association. New research is raising some startling findings about the transmission of serious illnesses from cats, including links to schizophrenia and other psychotic disturbances. This is a lot more dangerous that “cat scratch fever.” In Britain alone, roughly 350,000 people a year are believed to be infected each year with toxoplasma. There is also a link to higher rates of suicide among cat owners.

Toxoplasma gondii is a microscopic parasite that forms cysts in the human brain and other organs in humans and can be contracted through either direct contact with cats or from eating contaminated meat or vegetables. Of particular concern is the impact on pregnant woman and the occurrence of congenital birth deformities, blindness, dementia and even death. Worse still, there may be no outward signs of the disease. It now appears that perfectly healthy people are also being affected in large numbers. What I found particularly interested is that toxoplasma infection may make people take more risks as well has experience delayed reaction times (a dangerous combination).
The transmission from cats has also been traced to the food supply. In England, they have found that 70 percent of sheep are infected with the feline parasite from eating grass contaminated cat feces. This means that the same risk of schizophrenia and mental illness has been linked to cat-infected meat — again requiring thoroughly cooked meat.

The link between cats and mental illness however was discovered years ago by a young investigative reporter:

Source: Independent and Daily Mail

21 thoughts on “Research Links Widespread Infections From Cats and Links To Schizophrenia and Suicide”

  3. Scamper…. a cat…. 1958…til 1970. the end. I was 4 when scamper appeared. 16 when he disappeared. I gave him affection and attention as I evolved, and my ability to show affection and attention evolved. This is a life story I hope everyone experiences, because it is true. All our loving goes away at the end of our love. I will leave everything I love. Everything I love will leave me. Today is important, Tomorrow some day, will never ever be.
    If love is to cutting sharp, Kindness, and caring is also wonderful. It fills the empty between the Emptys. And filling the between with Love Kindness and Caring is wonderful. Eff hate and degradation, I was born without it. I was born equal to the newness of al born on my birthday. That never changes.
    Eff the Haters, my short time is too precious to hate.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

    Johnny Cash Hurt. ….. the risk of Love, Caring, Kindness, and Tenderness.
    Hurt is the end of Love … be it mine or some other for me.
    Existence is all. Accept it all. Nature is fair, it is to short for Love, but at least Nature offers Love. Don’t be afraid. Everyone survives hurt….till the end. We might as well survive Love to the end.

  7. i have four cats and i may be a lot of things but depressed ain’t one of them.

    this is a lie spread by dogs. i’m gonna waterboard my neighbors pomeranian until he confesses.

  8. So where is this “research?” Can’t seem to find it.

    How about this story for an exaggeration…”A conservative estimate of the number of birds killed by cats a year is 4 billion, but a representative for the American Bird Conservatory suggested that this new research could put the number as high as 10 or even 20 billion birds a year.”

    20 billion birds A YEAR. If all the cats were prevented from killing any birds, in two years there would be 40 billion more birds, all of them reproducing and shitting on your car…

    My cat’s recent research puts the number of really stupid people on the planet at around 6 billion…>^..^<

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/08/15/outdoor_cats_present_more_of_a_hazard_to_themselves_and_birds_than_owners_believe_.html

  9. This research is a bunch of bull connor. Next they will say that dog fleas cause cancer.

  10. E. Fuller Torrey has been pressing this theory for years, without much support:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuller_Torrey#Scientific_research_and_views

    Of course, they didn’t believe him in the seventies, when he was trying to get people to recognize schizophrenia as a brain disorder. It went against the popular R. D. Laing (“Schizophrenics aren’t crazy! We’re the crazy ones!”) and Thomas Szasz (“There’s no such thing as mental illness! Schizophrenics just want to make therest of us pay for their cushy mental-hospital lifestyle!”) theories.

  12. Oh dear God, what are we going to do a mass cull of cats now…If this carries on we could wipe out the whole of the animal and insect kingdom. I have six cats and they go out and I’m ok……who said that…schizophrenia!!! Let your immune system build from when you are a child and that’s how you deal with bugs and illnesses, too many people are wrapped in their little boxes, including children to build n immune system.

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  15. Actually, toxoplasma gondii is found in most mammals, including marine mammals (“Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum, Sarcocystis
    neurona, and Sarcocystis canis-like infections in marine mammals”, Veterinary Parasitology 116 (2003) 275–296). It was not recognized in canines for decades, and was confused with neospora caninum, a very similar parasitic microbe.

    The thing that causes people to mob up on cats is that t. gondii can only reproduce inside the intestines of cats.

    Other microbes were once considered to be parasites, but were later discovered to be symbiont with humans, and even today we know they are mandatory for human birth. My hypothesis is that the odd behavior of some of these microbes was caused by the K-T Boundary Mass Extinction Event 65 mya which wiped out ~90% of land species and ~50% of ocean species.

  16. Just what cats need, another false reason for people to “get rid of” those dirty infectious animals. Cats lives are not worth much in this country, 3rd rate way behind dogs. Thank you Don Pelton for your comments.

  17. See also the extremely thorough article on the subject of toxoplasmosis risk from cats in the Atlantic Monthly in March of this year, here:

    “How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy”
    By Kathleen Mcauliffe
    http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/

    (Reasssuring) Excerpt:

    “Indoor cats pose no threat, he says, because they don’t carry the parasite. As for outdoor cats, they shed the parasite for only three weeks of their life, typically when they’re young and have just begun hunting. During that brief period, Flegr simply recommends taking care to keep kitchen counters and tables wiped clean. (He practices what he preaches: he and his wife have two school-age children, and two outdoor cats that have free roam of their home.) Much more important for preventing exposure, he says, is to scrub vegetables thoroughly and avoid drinking water that has not been properly purified, especially in the developing world, where infection rates can reach 95 percent in some places. Also, he advises eating meat on the well-done side—or, if that’s not to your taste, freezing it before cooking, to kill the cysts.”

  19. hmmm, to fix post moggie infection we could:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW-8xAvkcAU
    2:45
    Military Anti-Suicide Spray “A Fix for Feelings?”
    by ExperimentalVaccines
    or:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ru6IPFPeTQ
    Dr. Mercola Interviews Dr. Andrew Saul
    1:29:04
    [- here’s a 50+ yr unpatented fix for depression,etc
    that’ll never be mentioned on Dr Oz or’The Doctor Channel’
    from NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan …follow the money,eh?]

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