{"id":758553,"date":"2023-06-21T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=758553"},"modified":"2023-06-21T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T18:00:01","slug":"wild-and-feral-cats-found-to-shed-more-toxoplasmosis-parasites-in-areas-densely-populated-by-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=758553","title":{"rendered":"Wild and feral cats found to shed more toxoplasmosis parasites in areas densely populated by humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new analysis suggests that wild, stray, and feral cats living in areas with higher human population density tend to release\u2014or &#8220;shed&#8221;\u2014a greater amount of the parasite that causes the disease toxoplasmosis. The study also draws links between environmental temperature variation and parasite shedding. Sophie Zhu of the University of California Davis and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on June 21.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-06-wild-feral-cats-toxoplasmosis-parasites.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wild and feral cats found to shed more toxoplasmosis parasites in areas densely populated by humans<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new analysis suggests that wild, stray, and feral cats living in areas with higher human population density tend to release\u2014or &#8220;shed&#8221;\u2014a greater amount of the parasite that causes the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}