Toxoplasmosis, the subject of today's lecture, is cropping up on news websites lately as people pick up on an article published in the Atlantic magazine:
How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had
been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the
prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What
he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by
house cats be creeping into our brains,
causing everything from car wrecks to
schizophrenia?
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