The parasite is called toxoplasma gondii, and it's found all over the world, including the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [greatfallstribune.com - Local News] Reference

Four month-old in utero vs. toxoplasma= devastation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is $45,000 too much to pay when your dog kills the neighbor's cat?] Reference

In the last couple of weeks I've read about toxoplasma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nostalgic Futures] Reference

In most populations the birth rate is around 51% boys, but women infected with toxoplasma had up to a 72% chance of a boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feministing: October 2006 Archives] Reference

There's been a recent flurry of reinterest in the effect of the cat parasite toxoplasma gondii on human personality - see also PDF of related SciAm article.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: 2005-06-17 Spike activity] Reference

Carl Zimmer on new research into the effects of toxoplasma which will be familiar to anyone who has read Peeps on humans: There's plenty left to do to turn these results into a full-blown explanation of parasites and personalities.    From Wordnik.com.  [January 2006] Reference

Researchers in the Czech Republic collected medical records from 1,803 newborn babies between 1996 and 2004 and checked them for information on the mothers and babies including gender, the number of previous pregnancies, and the mother's levels of toxoplasma antibodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feministing: October 2006 Archives] Reference

MEDITERRANEAN KIWI said ... ps and as every informed citizen knows, toxoplasma can be picked up from raw meat, if handled inappropriately, which might have been happening when people kill farm animals in the yard, where domestic (or domesticated) - live - animals are also kept.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gardens and Kittens with Recipe for Eggplant Kebab on Rosemary Skewers (Κεμπάμπ με Μελιτζάνες και Δενδρολίβανο)] Reference

ARS scientists trace toxoplasma parasite's family tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Plains Journal] Reference

How to avoid infection with toxoplasma gondii 403 words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Digital Point Forums] Reference

And not all schizophrenics have been exposed to toxoplasma.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Article: ARS scientists trace toxoplasma parasite's family tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Plains Journal] Reference

A new study has found toxoplasma, or toxo for short, starts its life cycle in rodents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

Wednesday, 17 News learned McCloud has also been diagnosed with a toxoplasma infection.    From Wordnik.com.  [KGET: Local News] Reference

Mice carry a parasite - toxoplasma - that can infect water and cause birth defects, according to the Centers for Disease Control.    From Wordnik.com.  [feminist blogs] Reference

Look around you right now, and odds are one of the next seven people you look at is infected with the toxoplasma gondii parasite.    From Wordnik.com.  [greatfallstribune.com - Local News] Reference

Someone with a toxoplasma infection, called toxoplasmosis, is more than twice as likely to develop schizophrenia, according to Yolken.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

In fact, in the United States it's estimated that 23 percent of the population has been infected with toxoplasma, and according to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [foodconsumer.org] Reference

Dr. Jonah says the best way to protect yourself from a toxoplasma infection is to wear gloves while your cleaning out the kitty box, or wash your hands thoroughly afterwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [KGET: Local News] Reference

One study suggests that a possible behavior modification is that people not infected with the parasite found women with toxoplasma more attractive than women who don't have toxoplasma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

Funded by the SMRI, Yolken's lab has conducted research on the role that viral and bacterial infections like herpes, Epstein-Barr, toxoplasma, and the flu play in the development of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

Therefore, little is known about the processes by which T cells access the central nervous system during toxoplasma infection or how the immune system keeps this parasite in check. study, researchers aimed to better understand how the immune system is able to control infection in the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

It discovered not only higher rates of salmonella in free-range pigs (54 percent versus 39 percent) but also greater levels of the pathogen toxoplasma (6.8 percent versus 1.1 percent) and, most alarming, two free-range pigs that carried the parasite trichina (as opposed to zero for confined pigs).    From Wordnik.com.  [NCPA | Daily Policy Digest] Reference

What’s even crazier is that one third of the worlds population is infected with the toxoplasma parasite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brave mouse VS leopard | My[confined]Space] Reference

The startling figures emerge from studies into toxoplasma gondii, a parasite carried by almost all the country’s feline population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-06-01] Reference

He’s more like the parasite toxoplasma gondii which can cause encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) and schizophrenia and can affect the heart, liver, and eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Man ‘disenchanted with the federal government’ indicted for planting pipe bombs in mailboxes.] Reference

Back to toxoplasma gondii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brain Parasites] Reference

Call me toxoplasma gondii.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2007 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

(1999) Secretion of micronemal proteins is associated with toxoplasma invasion of host cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Tags: allergy, anemia, hookworm, parasite, radiolab, toxoplasma.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Brown – the author’s official site » 2010 » February] Reference