I used to be a cat lover..I still like them- just from a distance now. I had 3 indoor cats when my husband and I were married, and he reminds me all the time now that they weren't exactly the most healthy thing to have around.
Kids sand boxes can be just like a giant litter box too, if cats are around. My mother-in-law has all sorts of things over her flower bed right now, trying to keep the cats from using it as a litter box.

Toxoplasmosis is one of the things on the list from Newport for the Alternative Dr to also check with the computer biofeedback testing (for Lyme co-infections).
Probably also another one that was engineered, as many infections are, for biowarfare.

Bartonella, also called Cat Scratch Fever, is one of the Lyme co-infections found often too. I just got done with a homeopathic series for it because it was found to be strong.

There is way more to these types of parasites than is currently known. I have found one type infecting me, which is apicomplexan [same family as toxo] but much, much smaller. There may even be a direct fungal component to these parasites. BTW there are over 4000 strains of apicomplexan parasites.
I am not the only one to find this, because recently some scientist {Dr. Fry; that is all I know} found a parasite that sounds just like this; he describes it as the "north Amercican" malaria, because it has features of both toxoplasma, and plasmodium [malaria].
He figures it is wide spread.
His version is protozoan with "tail".
I speculate this may be why many people doing ELISA and western blot have positive bands for 41kDa which is flagellum, but are tentatively negative for Bb. Shroom

I've seen other studies similar to this one on other mammals, one on Moose that were infected with roundworm. The moose was not afraid of the attacking wolves, and became much easier for the predator to remove.
I think I saw it on the discovery channel. I'm sorry I can't site it.
When you consider the very long time that we have all evolved together, then parasites are going to use chemical means to change the behavior of the host animal, including humans.
I also saw a study on human behavior that indicated that parasitic infections made human women less suspicious of strange men, and more promiscious. So much for 'free love'! If you consider that a lot of parasite are going to be transmitted by sexual behavior, then they will also affect the host in that way also. Again, I can't remember the source, it may have been parasite Rex, which is a really interesting book, and readable as well.
Julie