In fact, he says, schizophrenia did not rise in prevalence until the latter half of the 18th century, when for the first time people in Paris and London started keeping cats as pets. The so-called cat craze began among “poets and left-wing avant-garde Greenwich Village types,” says Torrey, but the trend spread rapidly—and coinciding with that development, the incidence of schizophrenia soared.

From The Scariest Atlantic Article in the World

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Moving beyond prevention to treatment is a taller order. Once the parasite becomes deeply ensconced in brain cells, routing it out of the body is virtually impossible: the thick-walled cysts are impregnable to antibiotics. Because T. gondii and the malaria protozoan are related, however, Yolken and other researchers are looking among antimalarial agents for more-effective drugs to attack the cysts. But for now, medicine has no therapy to offer people who want to rid themselves of the latent infection; and until solid proof exists that Toxo is as dangerous as some scientists now fear, pharmaceutical companies don’t have much incentive to develop anti-Toxo drugs.

Our cat tested clean when we got her but this makes me worry about ever eating another burger

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2. o-song said: I’m skeptical of the claim about schizophrenia’s rise - it’s very hard to separate a rise in reporting of schizophrenia and a rise in schizophrenia.
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   Dammit, it doesn’t exist in indoor cats…. now I can’t blame them…

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   This is pretty startling. It’s also a really long read,

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