So Toxoplasma gondii doesn’t really turn us into zombies like the ones we imagine them to be more like infecting mice and turning them into mindless, brainless zombies or drones.MORE NEWS: Florida man wins $1 million on scratch-off ticket days before birthday So if you want your baby to be safe and sound, stay away from the cat or more so contaminated food and water! Once you’re infected, you could potentially pass it on to your unborn baby. But sometimes you may have flu like symptoms which usually pass so not to worry. Now if you’re healthy, then most of the time you’re all good. Usually by eating foods contaminated with Toxo, you become infected. Your cat, Muffins’s poop isn’t the only way of contracting the disease though. In mice, the parasite actually works on the neurons of the brain and can change their behaviour to become more daring. These include vomiting and seizures which are definitely not pleasant. If you’re pregnant or have a weak immune system because you’re sick or old (no offense intended), then you’re at risk of having severe consequences from contracting toxoplasmosis. So Muffins eats the poor little mouse, swallowing Toxoplasma. The mouse happened to have eaten something like a biscuit or cheese with the Toxoplasma parasite as an oocyst or a protective shell with the egg inside which might have been on cat poop. That little mouse was infected by Toxoplasma gondii. The brave, stupid or infected mouse? Image Credit: Floris van Halm via Flickr Guess you can learn something from Tom and Jerry, huh?! I wonder why the little guy’s feeling so brave all of a sudden?!” Unfortunately for your poor eyesight but fortunately for Muffins, the little guy’s been devoured. My Muffins isn’t very friendly when it comes to rats and mice. And you think to yourself, “Well, that’s odd. But then you look more closely and you notice the little mouse walking closer and closer to Muffins, your big fat house cat. Imagine walking along your hallway at home when you suddenly come across a mouse, an everyday ordinary house mouse nothing unusual there. Toxoplasma gondii: The Parasitic Star Image Credit: AJC1 via Flickr But these guys do have a favourite to live in. The little bugger infects warm blooded animals. This little fella can be found everywhere around the world and I do mean everywhere. It’s a parasite that lives inside cells and is a protozoan member of what is known as the kingdom Protista, basically anything that doesn’t fit into the other kingdoms fungi, plants, bacteria and animals. Is this what you imagine zombies to look like? Image Credit: Brad Montgomery via Flickrīut there is a parasite we often associate with the living dead. Well, that’s what most people imagine zombies to be like anyway.
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Imagine a being with rotted flesh, blood and entrails spilling out of an opening in their abdomen, matted hair full of blood pulled right from the scalp, missing and hanging limbs rotted to the bone. Zombies, walkers, the undead, the living dead: that’s just some of the names we use when we think of the dead coming back to life.
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