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4. It's defined as a "cat parasite" because

Fri Feb 14, 2014, 01:11 PM

Feb 2014

cats are the only animals it can sexually reproduce in. It can infect and asexually reproduce in pretty much anything with warm blood.

Even if cats ceased to exist, the stuff would keep spreading between predators and prey and through contaminated water.

Who knows how it got to the whales. Rats off a ship? Someone on a ship with an infected cat chucking a litterbox overboard?

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Public health warning as cat parasite spreads to Arctic beluga whales [View all] bananas Feb 2014 OP

First songbirds... SHRED Feb 2014 #1

There is no species on this earth that isn't destructive in some way. hamsterjill Feb 2014 #5

not me SHRED Feb 2014 #8

In other words, you hate cats. Daemonaquila Feb 2014 #9

Except cats aren't native to most of their current habitats. Gormy Cuss Feb 2014 #11

Yes they are a problem SHRED Feb 2014 #14

Another opinion hamsterjill Feb 2014 #15

Not even close to 14.7 billion SHRED Feb 2014 #16

This makes no sense. leftyladyfrommo Feb 2014 #2

Yes ^^^ Mz Pip Feb 2014 #3

It's defined as a "cat parasite" because JoeyT Feb 2014 #4

They got it from HUMANS. Daemonaquila Feb 2014 #10

Then the cats and rats should probably stop eating people. JoeyT Feb 2014 #12

Melting ice + increased pet cats = parasites in the water bananas Feb 2014 #6

seems like to much human crap in the water..."In humans, it is one of the most common parasites" Sunlei Feb 2014 #7

T. gondii, the Sushi animals revenge. Sunlei Feb 2014 #13

Cat parasite Steviehh Feb 2014 #17