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The History of Toxoplasma Gondii
Toxoplasma gondii was found in a rabbit at the same time as Charles, Nicole and Louis Manso. Another researcher named Alfonso Splendor did the same exact thing but his report wasn't translated into English until 2009. The first known case of congenital human toxoplasmosis occurred in 1938 when an infant had lesions all over her brain that turned out to be parasites.