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Author Archives: toxoplasmosis

Huffington Post: Cat ban

May 17, 2013by toxoplasmosis Leave a comment

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/25/new-zealand-cat-ban-gareth-morgan_n_2551243.html New Zealand Cat Ban? Gareth Morgan, Anti-Kitty Economist, Wants Strays Euthanized, Pets Neutered “In an interview that appeared in the Atlantic on Thursday, prominent economist and environmentalist Gareth Morgan said that […]

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NY Times: Address the cat problem

May 17, 2013by toxoplasmosis Leave a comment

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/science/21birds.html?_r=0 Tweety Was Right: Cats Are a Bird’s No. 1 Enemy “I hope we can now stop minimizing and trivializing the impacts that outdoor cats have on the environment and […]

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Proposed “MEOW Act” cat offset program

May 17, 2013by toxoplasmosis Leave a comment

http://www.rstreet.org/news-release/r-street-proposes-cat-and-trade-offset-system-for-wind-power/ R Street proposes ‘cat-and-trade’ offset system for wind power “The MEOW Act would require wind turbine operators every year to show that they have destroyed at least one feline […]

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Toxo and brain cancer

May 15, 2013by toxoplasmosis Leave a comment

http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/8/1/101.abstract Incidence of adult brain cancers is higher in countries where the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is common  Frédéric Thomas Abstract: We explored associations between the common protozoan parasite Toxoplasma […]

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Toxo, neuroticism and sex roles in humans

May 15, 2013by toxoplasmosis Leave a comment

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/273/1602/2749.abstract Can the common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, influence human culture? Kevin D Lafferty Abstract: The latent prevalence of a long-lived and common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, explains a statistically […]

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The Economist: Toxo and human behavior

May 15, 2013by toxoplasmosis Leave a comment

http://www.economist.com/node/16271339 A game of cat and mouse: There is tantalising evidence that a common parasite may affect human behaviour “If an alien bug invaded the brains of half the population, […]

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The Atlantic: Dr. Flegr on toxo and human behavior

May 15, 2013by toxoplasmosis Leave a comment

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/how-your-cat-is-making-you-crazy/308873/ How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy “Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded […]

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Toxo increases dopamine production

May 15, 2013by toxoplasmosis Leave a comment

The Neurotropic Parasite Toxoplasma Gondii Increases Dopamine Metabolism Prandovszky E, Gaskell E, Martin H, Dubey JP, Webster JP, et al. (2011) The Neurotropic Parasite Toxoplasma Gondii Increases Dopamine Metabolism. PLoS […]

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