I once heard someone talking about arranging a hen do and struggling for ideas that would be okay for pregnant participants. At the time, I couldn’t see why it was so difficult… they were pregnant, not dead! …But I guess it depends how risk averse you are. If you’re avoid absolutely everything that could pose any tiny risk that includes alcohol, caffeine, household chemicals, saunas, certain foods, sports, paint, gardening, cats, non-stick frying pans and any person who could have an illness. In fact, staying locked indoors without human contact.
The outdoors thing intrigued me.
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So what is the risk?
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The panic is over
toxoplasma gondii, a
protozoan parasite that will infect a third of people over their lifetimes. Most people never know: the
zoonotic infection is
asymptomatic in healthy adults, and humans are considered dead-end accidental hosts, because
toxoplasma gondii can only reproduce in cats – and wants to get back in cats.
