If You Own Cats, You Might Have a Brain-Altering Parasite

A story of humans, an infectious parasite, and your cat.

Zulie Rane
The Startup
Published in
5 min readSep 9, 2019

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If you’re a cat owner, like me, you’re probably infected with a parasite.

In the last few decades, it became apparent that the vast majority of house cats were infected with a particular species of a tiny one-celled parasite, called Toxoplasma

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