Pet cat helps police talk suicidal owner off a building ledge

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Later a psychiatrist should investigate whether the intention to commit suicide is true or not. Domestic cats can transmit to their owners a dangerous parasite that causes disorders in the brain and provoking suicide. To this conclusion came the experts from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. We are talking about the parasite Toxoplasma, its Latin name-Toxoplasma gondii.

It is an intracellular parasite that reproduces in the intestines of cats. Part of his life cycle he can spend in any warm-blooded body, including in humans. From the cat’s intestine the parasite gets into the soil with faeces.