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Comment author: leo_gri 17 April 2016 04:50:17PM *  0 points [-]

Might not be so bad after all. (Personal hypothesis : however the trial was only made in New Zealand, so the parasite might not be exactly the same that in other parts of the world . I'm also wondering if the opposite effect on males and females could cancel each other out on a large scale study.)

Before reading this article, I was thinking of an "animal urine blind test" as a prediagnosis. An absence of disgust for cat urine could mean you're likely to be infected (however, in this article, the monkey were the natural prey of Leopard whereas humans in western regions are obviously not cat's preys). What do you think of it ? Any testimonies from people who know whether they are infected or not ? (I realize it's not very useful, because there is no good way to get rid of Latent Toxoplasmis and because it's probably not a very big deal. I wanted to do this mostly out of curiosity and my main interest is to know whether it could be a real instrument of diagnosis)