{"id":754,"date":"2016-01-11T18:17:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T18:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patagoniapet.com.ar\/en\/?p=754"},"modified":"2016-01-11T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T18:20:04","slug":"toxoplasmosis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patagoniapet.com.ar\/en\/toxoplasmosis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxoplasmosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is said a lot about this disease; especially about the possibility of producing miscarriage in women because of \u201ccats\u2019 transmission\u201d or because of \u201chaving cats\u201d, but few times the way this infection is transmitted is clarified.<br \/>\nThe wrong belief comes from a true fact: <strong>the germ (Toxoplasma Gondi) normally inhabits the cat\u00b4s intestines<\/strong>, but actually when it comes out through stool it refrains from transmission until 2 to 5 days have passed and they have the possibility to infect. That is to say that although we took stool with our hands without gloves (even with wounds on our skin) there would <strong>NOT be possibility of transmission.<\/strong><br \/>\nBesides, in most cases it has been proved <strong>that transmission is produced after eating badly-cooked meat or badly-washed vegetables<\/strong>. Because of all this it can be explained why the 40% of pregnant women that have suffered miscarriage due to toxoplasmosis had never been in touch with cats and why most veterinarians who are every day in touch with cats show negative serology (absence of antibodies against Toxoplasma, as if they had never been in touch with that germ).<br \/>\nTherefore, the <strong>preventive measures<\/strong> to be taken into account regarding this disease are:<br \/>\n<strong>\u2022 Wash fresh vegetables thoroughly.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Cook meat completely.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Gather cats\u2019 stool with gloves (particularly if it is more than 2 days old)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> \u2022 Ask the doctor a prescription for a blood sample to measure antibodies against Toxoplasmosis before looking for or \u00a0 \u00a0at the very beginning of pregnancy.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is said a lot about this disease; especially about the possibility of producing miscarriage in women because of \u201ccats\u2019 transmission\u201d or because of \u201chaving cats\u201d, but few times the way this infection is transmitted is clarified. The wrong belief comes from a true fact: the germ (Toxoplasma Gondi) normally inhabits the cat\u00b4s intestines, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cats"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patagoniapet.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patagoniapet.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patagoniapet.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patagoniapet.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patagoniapet.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patagoniapet.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":757,"href":"https:\/\/patagoniapet.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patagoniapet.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patagoniapet.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patagoniapet.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patagoniapet.com.ar\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}