Sheep abortion disease threat 'seriously underestimated'  for humans 

Toxoplasmosis may be cause of millions of mental disorders

Toxoplasmosis, one of the zoonotic disease threats for farmers, may cause much more auto-immune, psychiatric and behavioural conditions than was assumed.

New research findings indicate that a disease associated with sheep abortions and cats globally causes between 150,000 and 335,000 cases of schizophrenia in humans, accounts for between 2.1 and 10.2 million non-fatal traffic accidents, and between 0.5 and 2.9 million non-fatal suicide attempts.

A Royal Veterinary College (RVC) study, published in Trends in Parasitology, suggests that the human infection burden of Toxoplasma gondii (T gondii), a globally distributed parasitic infection, has been greatly underestimated.