Rob Brooks receives funding from the Australian Research Council. I should admit straight up that I’m no fan of cats. Like any zoologist I treasure the rare glimpses I have had of lions, leopards, ...

Toxoplasmosis in cats is a widespread disease that can also be transmitted to humans. Pregnant women, in particular, should take precautions to avoid infection. Photo: Getty Images Toxoplasmosis is ...

Infection with the toxoplasma parasite makes mice fearless in the presence of cats -- to their regret. But how does the protozoan do that? Scientists looked at the effects of three common strains of ...

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 ...

With cats both cute and grumpy ruling the Internet and with cat ownership at a solid 47 million American households, it's no wonder that a study suggesting cat ownership might contribute to mental ...

We are in the 21st century, but many human medical doctors are under-informed and overprotective of pregnant women and the handling of their cats. I believe that any woman considering pregnancy should ...

A recent study in the journal EcoHealth connects white-tailed deer and free-roaming cats to the disease toxoplasmosis. In an email, lead author Gregory Ballash of Ohio State University’s Department of ...

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 ...

What if I told you that there is a good chance you are carrying a parasite that is transmitted through cat poo? Two billion people around the world carry Toxoplasma gondii so there may be more than a ...

A food-borne parasite that infects domestic cats can get inside the human brain by commandeering special cells of the immune system which it uses as a Trojan horse to enter the central nervous system, ...