The parasite that causes toxoplasmosis is found in the poo of infected cats, and in infected meat. You can also catch it from soil that's been contaminated by cat poo.
This comes from the NHS website, have you got any more facetious comments?
Anyone who had seen a child with severe brain damage resulting from her mother being infected with toxoplasmosis from gardening while pregnant, wouldn’t be so flippant.
I said something similar a good while back, and was derided, @AnniD … but I must say that, as with the majority of our forum discussions, this is being conducted with mutual good humour 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Regardless of the other effects on the demise of wildlife, cats are definitely a contributing factor. The difference is, if cats were no longer allowed to roam, it would have an immediate affect,whereas some of the other factors are out of our direct control.
Be careful..removing one species from an established ecosystem can be a dangerous game...especially, what many would consider an apex predator. There are a large numbers of examples of well intentioned actions resulting in often unpredicted or unforeseen negative outcomes.
It's not so much total removal that's needed ......... but a reduction in numbers in areas where there are really high populations of roaming cats. When we lived in a rural village the number of roaming cats was really very few 'per acre'. Here in a suburban village on the edge of a city, with a nature reserve on one side and an SSSI on the other, there are, to my knowledge, and at a rough count, at least six roaming cats living in the acre around this house ... and this acre is pretty typical for this area. That's too many.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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The parasite that causes toxoplasmosis is found in the poo of infected cats, and in infected meat. You can also catch it from soil that's been contaminated by cat poo.
This comes from the NHS website, have you got any more facetious comments?
with severe brain damage resulting from her mother being infected with toxoplasmosis from gardening while pregnant, wouldn’t be so flippant.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They provoked a response, but perhaps not in the way it was expected
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.