2 Myths About Cats Not True

[Catherine]

Welcome to the forum and thank-you for this Thread.

I am glad that they have determined that cats are not a common source of rabies. Rabies is a very serious disease and all bites should be taken seriously, however it is clear that we do not need to fear cats.

Even better, cats are not the direct source of toxoplasmosis infections. It makes sense that it would be infected meat or contaminated soil that is the contact point with the parasite. It is good to know that cats and people develop immunity to toxoplasmosis after an infection. It should be easy to protect a pregnant woman and therefore her baby. She could get the infection before and develop immunity. She could also be very careful about meat and gardening. Good hand washing would probably be enough.

Cats are so clean anyhow that I never believed they were sources of disease.