What Having a Cat Does to Your Eyes

Visit https://www.squarespace.com/brew to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code: brew Does having a cat increase the chance of blindness? How about eating raw meat? Is it possible for a parasitical infection to mind-control humans like a horror sci-fi? What if this parasite ends up changing your behaviour? We have a lot to unpack so let’s get into it. Disclaimer: Today's episode covers medical stories, and as always, while we do our research, we’re not experts or doctors and would recommend speaking with your doctor if you have any concerns. Sources: Special thanks to Nicole Dupuis, Canadian Museum of Nature, for answering our questions, and the American Museum of Nature (AMNH) for helping us with our research. [Ocular Toxoplasmosis Case: A Man Went Blind] https://www.europeanreview.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/84-89.pdf https://www.floridaeyeclinic.com/services/lensectomy/ https://eye.net.au/procedures/lens-surgery/lensectomy/ https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/retinal-detachment/symptoms-causes/syc-20351344 [The Cat Parasite: What is Toxoplasmosis?] https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/gen_info/faqs.html https://www.biologyonline.com/dictionary/definitive-host https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/biology.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2042101/ [Can A Parasite Mind-Control? Personality Changes] https://mbio.asm.org/content/11/2/e02164-19 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2526142/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16978630/ [My Microbes Made Me Do It - AMNH] https://www.amnh.org/global-business-development/traveling-exhibitions/the-secret-world-inside-you http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/1/127 https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0001389 https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2334-2-11 [Other Sources] https://youtu.be/h8CVDoRP37w https://youtu.be/_d68kyNY0jI https://youtu.be/_d68kyNY0jI https://youtu.be/ob8vZhSjES8 https://youtu.be/_UdZYv4s-A0 https://youtu.be/xfl45rmGjvs https://youtu.be/oFDRMB-CRNw https://youtu.be/o_-0xh-8dVg https://youtu.be/7g2rxtWu_FM https://youtu.be/lcUoCJgfh8M https://youtu.be/4Ra4GYurfIc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices