Current Affairs Czech scientist: feeling depressed, withdrawn? Blame your cat
Now, have you been feeling a bit strange lately? Men - have you been feeling jealous, withdrawn, depressed? Women - have you been feeling unusually outgoing, flirtatious even? Well, if you have noticed some sudden changes in your behaviour, there's a good chance you've been infected with a parasite called toxoplasma - and believe it or not, you probably caught it from your cat. No, we haven't gone completely mad: Jaroslav Flegr, a scientist at Prague's Charles University, claims that millions of people around the world are infected with the primarily cat-borne toxoplasma parasite, and their behaviour has changed as a result. So what - exactly - is the toxoplasma bug?
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