Science Alert
Peter Dockrill
Sept. 14, 2017
The brain-dwelling parasite Toxoplasma gondii is estimated to be hosted by at least 2 billion people around the world, and new evidence suggests the lodger could be more dangerous than we think.
While the protozoan invader poses the greatest risk to developing foetuses infected in the womb, new research suggests the parasite could alter and amplify a range of neurological disorders, including epilepsy, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's, and also cancer.
"This study is a paradigm shifter," says one of the team, neuroscientist Dennis Steindler from Tufts University.
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