I was doing the same as Bart, just sharing what I knew about Taxoplasmosis, very little lol, and adding to the conversation, and cat scratch fever. Even still, if I could, I would have a pet.

Just to mention, before being diagnosed with cancer in 2009, I had a scratch from dog on my leg, and subsequently developed an abcess in the area, which had to be surgically removed, and from the hospitalization and or from surgery, contracted MRSA, which led to sepsis. During that time (21 days), I showed them the enlarged cevical lymph node, which was thought to be from the infection, which of course turned out to be cancerous.