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"Cat parasite may trigger schizophrenia

12Dec00

SCIENTISTS are investigating a possible link between cats and schizophrenia.

They believe a parasite carried by a small number of cats could trigger the mental illness which affects one in 100 people.
An American professor of psychiatry is due to test a drug which would combat the effects of the virus caused by the parasite, toxoplasma.

Professor Fuller Torrey, of the Uniformed Services University Health Service in Maryland, hopes the anti-viral drug, Acyclovir, will improve the condition of schizophrenic patients and prove the cat link.

In 1995 he and Robert Yolken, a virologist at Johns Hopkins University, suggested a link between cats and the illness based on a finding that 51 per cent of schizophrenics had been exposed to cats during childhood, compared with 38 per cent of a control group.

Research also suggests there is a higher incidence of schizophrenia in countries where cats are kept as pets.

If it is proved that a virus could cause schizophrenia, whether from cats or another source, it will be a major medical breakthrough.

The illness has baffled doctors for hundreds of years and there is no cure for the disease. An estimated one third of schizophrenic patients get better, a third do not, and the remainder suffer episodes of illness.

If experts are able to identify viruses involved, doctors would be able to treat schizophrenia with anti-viral drugs, immune boosters or, in the case of bacterial infections, with simple antibiotics. "


fonte: http://cats.about.com/library/weekly/aa010600a.htm

[anjaazul]

olá
estes tais médicos adoram gatos!!!! até já houve quem dissesse que só os louros de olhos azuis eram uma raça pura. há gente para tudo.
anjaazul

[terry]

Quem terá sido o esquizofrénico (com todo o respeito pelas pessoas que sofrem dessa terrível doença!) que descobriu isso

Concordo a 100% com a AnjaAzul, há verdades para todos os gostos e cada um manipula-as como prefere.

[fabriro]

JÁ LI "MILHENTAS" COISAS SOBRE OS NOSSOS FOFINHOS, MAS NUNCA LI NADA QUE FUNDAMENTE ESTE, QUE PARA MIM, É UM PERFEITO DISPARATE!!!!!

[JAntunes]

Se estiver doente e for ao medico pode ouvir isto...

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