50 Percent Higher Suicide Rate in Women With Exposure to a Cat Box

By Muhammad Suhaib

Correspondent, SAM Daily Times

The University of Maryland School of Medicine has released a study showing a very strong correlation between women who attempt suicide and exposure to T. gondii. Toxoplasma gondii infection results from exposure to a common parasite from cat litter.

The study from the new "Archives of General Psychiatry" shows a link between the immune system and suicide attempts.

Re-analysing data from 45 thousand woman in Denmark between 1992 and 1995 reveals a correlation between T. gondii and suicides.