mrgoodkat wrote:
Bernstein is a dangerous idiot.
Toxoplasma gondii can be carried by every warm blooded animal, including dogs. The only major outbreak was in China and was traced back to dogs. In fact, most researchers, and people with their heads attached correctly, see far more of a danger in handling dog feces outside where hand washing occurs sometime after that of someone using a scoop to clean a cat pan. Although in either case, it is so exceedingly rare that a 30 year study is still inconclusive and a search for Dan's sources take you to the usual sites that require you to suspend a bit of critical thinking, like the Daily Mail.
I'd say that someone should call him on his disinformation campaign but we all know that would lead to being called a moron before being hung up on.
Also, if you keep your cats indoors and don't let them go outside to eat critters, it's highly unlikely that they'll carry it, along with whatever else a cat can pick up from disemboweling a squirrel.
You can get it from digging in dirt. Is Dan going to ban his wife from gardening? "Stop touching that dirt! You're going to get parasites and die and orphan your children. You're a bad parent. You're on the wrong side of dirt. HIRE. PEOPLE. TO DO THIS."
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