Toxoplasmosis from Cats

My wife has toxoplasmosis, a consequence of her mother keeping cats when she was pregnant. It is a blood based parasite that lives in the brain and there is no known cure for it yet.

The issues for my wife are a badly damaged retina in both eyes due to the parasite activity there - and flare up can happen when the immune system is compromised so blindness is a distinct possibility for her.

Here is quite a useful source of information:

https://www.webmd.com/pets/cats/toxoplasmosis-cats

those who are pregnant or have weakened immune systems face greater health risks.

Looking at the impact of mental health and toxoplasmisis:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7040223/

The connection between certain mental health disorders, especially schizophrenia, and toxoplasmosis has been documented beyond any reasonable doubt,

... It is not known whether the association of Toxoplasma with schizophrenia is the strongest or whether it is just most often studied.

The article goes on to compare a number of conditions, but not specifically autism. It does cover a number of traits that are common to autism so it may just be a case that this has not been studied yet.

Thank God I took plenty of Vitamin C and D supplements during the ZANU Normal. 

I found a bit more about the occurrance in autistic peope:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7040223/

The typical symptom associated with toxoplasmosis was anxiety, and the typical toxoplasmosis-associated disorders were autism (OR = 4.78)

I belive OR means the occurrance rate, i.e. how many people in that category have toxoplasmosis.

I found a bit more about the occurrance in autistic peope:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7040223/

The typical symptom associated with toxoplasmosis was anxiety, and the typical toxoplasmosis-associated disorders were autism (OR = 4.78)

I belive OR means the occurrance rate, i.e. how many people in that category have toxoplasmosis.