The Health Benefits of Pets
Chasing Life
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Toxoplasm
Taxo plasmagandi starts developing in a cat's intestine. The parasite then finds its way out through the cat's pecies and then into another warm blooded animal like a rat, a bird, even a human. But then it has to get back into the gut of a cat to reproduce. We are actually deadend hosts for toxo plasma. Even though it infects so many of us, it usually will not make its way back into the environment, except when we're eaten by tigers.
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