Toxoplasmosis

[Mary Mallozziberg]

Toxoplasmosis is infection caused by the single-celled protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Usually, the infection does not cause symptoms, but some people have swollen lymph nodes, fever, a vague ill feeling, and sometimes a sore throat or blurred vision and eye pain. In people with a weakened immune system due to AIDS or another condition, toxoplasmosis can reactivate, usually affecting the brain. A reactivated infection can cause weakness, confusion, seizures, or coma or spread throughout the body. Babies infected before birth (called congenital infection) can have birth defects, loss of vision, seizures, intellectual disability, and other abnormalities.

People acquire the infection by transferring the parasite

[exinilu]

A disease caused by toxoplasmas, transmitted chiefly through undercooked meat, or in soil or cat feces. Symptoms generally pass unremarked in adults, but infection can be dangerous to unborn children.

[Becky]

[Parasite] that causes people to love cats. [Roughly] 1/3 of the population is [affected].

[Jessica]

Flu-like [cat shit] [disease]

[Jason Yan]

an infection caused by the toxoplasma organism, which can be dangerous for an unborn child if a pregnant woman is affected by it: