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July 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - Women infected with Toxoplasma gondii are one-and-a-half times more likely to attempt suicide
- Third of world’s population is infected with parasite, which hides in cells in the brain and muscles, often without producing symptoms
By
Graham Smith
03:52 EST, 3 July 2012
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03:52 EST, 3 July 2012
Female cat owners are more likely to suffer mental health problems and commit suicide because they can be infected with a common parasite that can be caught from cat litter, according to a study.
Women infected with the Toxoplasma gondii – or T. gondii – parasite, which is spread through contact with cat faeces or eating undercooked meat or unwashed vegetables, are at increased risk of suicidal thoughts.
About a third of the world’s population
is infected with the parasite, which hides in cells in the brain and
muscles, often without producing symptoms.
Risk? Female cat owners are more likely to commit suicide because they can be infected with a common parasite that can be caught from cat litter
The infection, which is called
toxoplasmosis, has been linked to mental illness, such as schizophrenia,
and changes in behaviour.
Scientists from the U.S., Denmark, Germany and Sweden looked at more than 45,000 Danish women who gave birth between 1992 and 1995.
Babies
don’t produce antibodies to T. gondii until three months after they are
born, so the antibodies present in their blood represented infection in
the mothers.
The scientists
scoured Danish health registries to determine if any of women
diagnosed as infected later attempted suicide, including cases of violent suicide attempts
which may have involved guns, sharp instruments and jumping from high
places.
They found
that women infected with T. gondii were one-and-a-half times more likely
to attempt suicide compared to those who were not infected, and the
risk seemed to rise with increasing levels of the T. gondii antibodies.
Lead researcher Dr Teodor Postolache, from the University of Maryland, said: ‘We can’t say with certainty that T. gondii caused the women to try to kill themselves, but we did find a predictive association between the infection and suicide attempts later in life that warrants additional studies.’
The study is the largest ever to try and ascertain a link between T.
gondii and attempted suicide and the first prospective study to document
suicide attempts that occurred after the infection was discovered.
Dr Postolache’s research team at the University of Maryland was the first
to report a connection between T. gondii and suicidal behaviour in 2009.
The parasite thrives in the
intestines of cats and is spread through oocysts passed in their
faeces.
All warm-blooded animals can become infected through ingestion
of these oocysts. The organism spreads to their brain and muscles,
hiding from the immune system within ‘cysts’ inside cells.
Humans
can become infected by changing their infected cats’ litter boxes,
eating unwashed vegetables, drinking water from a contaminated source or, more commonly, by eating undercooked or raw meat that is infested
with cysts.
Not washing
kitchen knives after preparing raw meat before handling another food
item also can lead to infection.
Pregnant women can pass the parasite
directly to their unborn babies and are advised not to change cat litter
boxes to avoid possible infection.
Dr Postolache noted the study’s limitations, such as the inability to determine the cause of suicidal behaviour.
He added: ‘T. gondii infection is likely not a random event and it is conceivable that the results could be alternatively explained by people with psychiatric disturbances having a higher risk of becoming T. gondii infected prior to contact with the health system.’
The findings are published online in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
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How in the merry name of hell do you then explain the 90 year old woman next door to me with 13 cats…??????
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Surely if those women jump off a building, they’ll always land on their feet?
– Craig Scott, East Calder, 03/7/2012 17:57
Brilliant best laugh i’ve had all day
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I haven’t read an article this ridiculous in a long while. Honestly…
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I wonder how easy this is to catch really. Having grown up with cats from being very small, rarely washed my hands as a child, kissed the cats and let them sleep on my bed at night I decided to have a blood test for Toxoplasmosis when I became pregnant. No antibodies to Toxoplasmosis whatsoever – completely negative blood test. Surely I would have caught it!! I’ve eaten rare meat for years too – still a negative result though.
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How ridiculous. Maybe they have suicidal thoughts beacause they are lonely and depressed with only a cat for company.
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I think the should be a cull of all cats that are out after dark. They kill billions of small birds and mammals. As much as I dislike pest foxes, urban foxes do kill many cats for food so foxes can’t be all that bad.
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Every woman should have a cat…. Is this why they are such awful drivers? Does this parasite also prevent you reversing your car into a huge parking spot?
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Not gonna stop me to have cats
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Cats are disgusting creatures and there should be a cull on them, if a dog was to go into a neighbours garden kill wildlife poo in it, there would be a hell to pay yet my neighbours cat does just that in mine
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I own two cats, never wash veg and like my steaks rare. Guess I’m screwed then!
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