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Chain of cat feces can harm humans, sea otters
CNN ^
| February 19, 2012
Posted on 02/20/2012 8:49:44 PM PST by moviefan8
ause disease in sea otters and humans alike.
A young cat can shed up to 100 million oocysts - little egg-like structures - in its feces. All it takes is one oocyst to cause an infection of Toxoplasma gondii.
Largely, the parasite is asymptomatic in humans, but it can sometimes cause problems for infants born to infected mothers - including hearing loss, mental disability and blindness. People with compromised immune systems, especially those who have HIV/AIDS, may also develop serious complications.
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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cat; catlitter; feces; health
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I saw a news story on this on a local channel where I live and wanted to post an article about it.
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posted on
02/20/2012 8:49:56 PM PST
by
moviefan8
To: moviefan8
"I sorry Mr. Otter."
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posted on
02/20/2012 8:56:21 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
("And the public gets what the public wants" -- The Jam)
To: moviefan8
How about we feed liberals with cat feces to protect those poor, cute sea otters?
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posted on
02/20/2012 9:01:14 PM PST
by
max americana
(Buttcrack Obama is an idiot)
To: moviefan8
“Chain of cat feces” = terrible name for a punk band.
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posted on
02/20/2012 9:06:14 PM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(The only economic certainty: When it all blows up, Krugman will say we didn't spend enough.)
To: max americana
Make you think twice before having a cup of Kopi Luwak.
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posted on
02/20/2012 9:06:39 PM PST
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: moviefan8
Chain of cat feces can’t be good for anyone.
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posted on
02/20/2012 9:08:30 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Didn’t Aretha Franklin sing that song ?
To: moviefan8
Sorry, cat lovers; this is why cats are vile, vile, vile.
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posted on
02/20/2012 9:10:49 PM PST
by
lurk
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
How about “Fecal Cat Chum”
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posted on
02/20/2012 9:14:20 PM PST
by
omega4179
(Internet ID:FU░&#BO)
To: lurk
My cats are very offended by your statement!
That’s it....I am calling.....ATTAAAAACKK WWWAAAATCH!
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posted on
02/20/2012 9:15:51 PM PST
by
astratt7
(obama,muslim,politics)
To: lurk
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posted on
02/20/2012 9:15:55 PM PST
by
patriot08
(TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
To: max americana
Not a bad idea Max.
Speaking of cats, of my dads cats is just as spoiled as the dog. The cat hunts. The other one is still shy around people. Someday she may come around.
To: moviefan8
if you continue from cats to looking at every disease carried by birds and wild animals...distributed in their waste and carcases you wind up a Howard Hughes type basket case before you go very far.
Life is challenging.
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posted on
02/20/2012 9:17:20 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: moviefan8
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posted on
02/20/2012 9:26:49 PM PST
by
NordP
(Common Sense ConservaTEAves - Love of Country, Less Govt, Stop Spending, No Govt Run Health Care!!!)
To: moviefan8
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posted on
02/20/2012 9:45:16 PM PST
by
Defiant
(If there are infinite parallel universes, why Lord, am I living in the one with Obama as President?)
To: ClearCase_guy
Isn’t that the cutest? I want a Scottish Fold so bad but don’t have a decent setup to have a cat.
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posted on
02/20/2012 10:00:41 PM PST
by
abigailsmybaby
("To understan' the livin', you got ta commune wit' da dead." Minerva)
To: moviefan8; Slings and Arrows; Yaelle; LucyT; TigersEye; All
The info contained in this article is mostly standard parasitology textbook material on the Toxoplasma parasite. It is rather rare that Taxoplasmosis causes serious disease in humans, and in those instances it's usually in patients with compromised immune systems or in infants who get infected from their mother via transmission through the placenta.
It should be emphasized that the cute house cats shown in the photo accompanying the posted article are very unlikely to be infected with the parasite; only about one percent of cats are infected. So cat owners in general shouldn't become overly up tight about this.
To: justiceseeker93
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posted on
02/20/2012 10:27:56 PM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: lurk
“Sorry, cat lovers; this is why cats are vile, vile, vile.”
Not true! All you need is a better recipe.
;-)
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posted on
02/20/2012 10:42:59 PM PST
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
To: moviefan8
This is BS put out by NOAA and the communists at the Monterey Marine Sanctuary.
It is globalist garbage deigned to break the bonds of property rights into a million pieces so they won’t exist in this country anymore.
The basis of their claim is the watershed is more important than any man made boundary. If you allow your pet to ‘go’ outdoors then you are harming the watershed, and so your right to your own property is superseded by their need to control you.
By controlling you they can enforce new building and health codes on you, which can force you off your property by expense, or they can tax you, kind of like the impervious surface tax going around some counties to punish you if you have too much concrete or asphalt, in their view, in your landscape.
Its nothing but another globalist attack on YOU!
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