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![According to a new study, a parasite that lives in the gut of a cat may make infected women more prone to suicide. [Agencies]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20120706/000cf1bdd2451160cc3321.jpg "According to a new study, a parasite that lives in the gut of a cat may make infected women more prone to suicide. [Agencies]")
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| According to a new study, a parasite that lives in the gut of a cat may make infected women more prone to suicide. [Agencies] |
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Women infected with a parasite spread by cat feces run a higher risk of attempting suicide, AFP reported.
University of Maryland medical school studied more than 45,000 women in Denmark and noted "a predictive association between the infection and suicide attempts later in life that warrants additional studies."
About one in three people in the world are believed to be infected with T. gondii, which has been linked to schizophrenia and behavior changes, but often produces no symptoms as it lurks in brain and muscle cells.
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貓屎寄生蟲讓人想自殺
???????據美聯社報道，女性如果感染了由貓屎傳播的一種寄生蟲，嘗試自殺的幾率會更高。
???????美國馬里蘭大學醫學院研究了45000名丹麥女性，然后提出：“感染這種寄生蟲和在今后生活中嘗試自殺之間有一種預見性的聯系，而且有必要通過進一步研究論證。”
???????世界上1/3的人口被確信感染了弓形蟲，會致使精神分裂癥和行為改變，但在它進入大腦和肌肉細胞時常常不會產生癥狀。
(China.org.cn July 6, 2012) |
