THE FUSE

For a few years now, health organizations have been warning that Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans has reached dangerous levels [1], but newer statistics and projections point to some pretty alarming numbers. It looks like in some regions (Italy and Pakistan, for example), more than a third of the population is infected with this parasite, and overall, it has infected around a billion people worldwide, though the burden is unevenly distributed. Because of this, it could fairly be called the most common parasitic infection in humans [2].