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Cat Parasites Infect Otters

Posted by michael on from the we-otter-be-more-careful dept.

Peter T Ermit writes "In an article in the International Journal of Parasitology, a team of scientists links the deaths of sea otters to T. gondii, a parasite found almost exclusively in cat feces. (The above link goes to a technical abstract; this is a more understandable popular version.) It seems that the parasite got into the ocean through waste water, and wound up infecting the otters' brains. So think twice before flushing that kitty litter."

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  1. Fucking otters, by Mordant · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    who need 'em, anyways? Always honking the bloody horns, begging for fishes - about time we gave 'em the old heave-ho, if you ask me.