Though most cats love to cuddle and can serve as a nurturing companion for years, a new study has found that people who come in contact with litter boxes may develop sudden rage, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia later in life.
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According to CBS, E. Fuller Torrey of the Stanley Medical Research Institute and Dr. Robert H. Yolken of Stanley Laboratory of Developmental Neurovirology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been studying the link between infection with a parasite called ‘Toxoplasma gondii,’ found in cat feces, and schizophrenia for close to three decades.

Their most recent study, published in Schizophrenia Research, compared two previous studies that found a link between childhood cat ownership and the development of schizophrenia later in life with an unpublished survey on mental health from 1982, 10 years before any data on cat ownership and mental illness had been published.

After comparing the two prior studies to the survey, researchers were able to conclude that exposure to T. gondii can lead to ‘toxoplasmosis,’ a condition that, if contracted in childhood, makes one more prone to mental problems later in life.

“Cat ownership in childhood has now been reported in three studies to be significantly more common in families in which the child is later diagnosed with schizophrenia or another serious mental illness,” the authors reported in a press release.

And this isn’t the first time exposure to T. gondii has been linked to worrisome health issues, either.

Pregnant women have long been told to avoid cleaning their cat’s litter box, as toxoplasmosis has been shown to cause
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