Toxoplasmosis a small risk in owning a cat

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Dear Doctors: My fiance and I adopted a cat, and his mother is insisting that we must give it back. She says you can get toxoplasmosis from having a cat in the house, and if I get pregnant, I'll give it to the baby. Is that really true? What is toxoplasmosis?

Dear Reader: Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic infection caused by Toxoplasma gondii. It's a single-celled organism found throughou…