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Last I checked, toxoplasmosis was curable: >Most healthy people recover from toxoplasmosis without treatment. Persons who are ill can be treated with a combina

Last I checked, toxoplasmosis was curable: >Most healthy people recover from toxoplasmosis without treatment. Persons who are ill can be treated with a combination of drugs such as pyrimethamine and sulfadiazine, plus folinic acid. [0] Or is there something special about a latent infection vs an active infection? [0] https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/treatment.html https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/treatment.html

chasil 5y ago
The latent infection forms cysts in the brain that remain for the rest of the life of the organism. These cysts cause the behavior changes in rodents that attract them to the smells of cats. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC106833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC106833/ "[The cysts] are more prevalent in the neural and muscular tissues, including the brain, eyes, and skeletal and cardiac muscles. Intact tissue cysts probably do not cause any harm and can persist for the life of the host without causing a host inflammatory response."
- pvaldes 5y ago
  > forms cysts in the brain that remain for the rest of the life of the organism where organism = mouse. We are neither mice nor live for one year and then die like mice do.
  - chasil 5y ago
    If you read the paper, you will discover that the infection is indeed life-long in humans.