Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that spreads through cat poop and contaminated food and water, should be taken much more seriously than it currently is, an international team of researchers is arguing.
In a paper published today, the team is calling for the World Health Organization to formally designate T. gondii infection a neglected tropical disease. This infection, known as toxoplasmosis and found in about 1 in every 10 Americans, can wreak all sorts of bodily havoc, including blindness, and may even have the potential to subtly alter people’s personalities. Recognizing T. gondii as a neglected tropical disease would make it easier to study the parasite and bolster prevention efforts in the most vulnerable parts of the world, the researchers say.
“What we’re seeing is that while there are these improvements occurring in the fight against other neglected tropical diseases, toxoplasmosis is just getting left behind,” senior author Justine Smith, an ophthalmologist at Flinders University in Australia, told Gizmodo.
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The Iron Cup Discovered in a Coal Mine That's Older Than the Dinosaurs
"Bitcoin Is Capital": Saylor's Strategy Says May Sell Up To $1.25 Billion Crypto To Fund Dividends
Strategy unveiled a new capital management framework that raises STRC's dividend to 12%, authorizes $2 billion in share buybacks, and permits limited bitcoin sales to fund reserves, dividends, debt obligations, and stock repurchases..
https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/bitcoin-capital-saylors-strategy-says-may-sell-125-billion-crypto-fund-dividends
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Israel continues to commit genocide and other atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children
Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today.
The Commission, which concluded last year that Israel had committed genocide against the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip, found that the intense scale and systematic nature of the Israeli military operations have continued – resulting in unprecedented death, injury and trauma of Palestinian children.
The Commission reiterates that the deliberate targeting of children is one of the key elements establishing genocidal intent of the Israeli authorities and security forces to destroy the Palestinian group, in whole or in part, in Gaza.
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/06/israel-continues-commit-genocide-and-other-atrocity-crimes-deliberately
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McGowan: Every single country in the World Cup has voter ID except us. That’s not a far left position.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/mcgowan-every-single-country-in-the-world-cup-has-universal-health-care-except-us-thats-not-a-far-left-position/
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