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all day.

All right.

First of all, thanks for doing this.

I really appreciate it.

I found out about you several years back.

I had heard something about toxicoplasmosis, am I saying it right?

Yeah.

Yeah. And I had seen a speech that you had given on it where you were talking about how many people have been infected by this cat parasite.

I've had cats my whole life and I even had feral cats and I've always wondered like I should

probably get tested and I'm worried about the result.

But it was just fascinating to me that literally, I mean, what is the number that you estimate

in Americans alone that might have been infected?

It's on the order of, well I'm not sure with Americans, but worldwide it's something like 50% of humans is the best guess

50% of humans worldwide.

Something on that scale.

For people who never heard of this, Would you mind explaining what this parasite is

and how it affects rats and then cats and then people?

Okay, totally bizarre.

So it's this protozoan parasite,

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