bananimal

All jokes aside, cat waste contamination is a real health issue.

Cat feces can give humans Toxoplasmosis. An intestinal parasitic disease of cats and other animals. Affects the cat intestines and other tissues and the cysts are shed in the feces.

Toxoplasmosis has teratogenic effects associated with abortion and malformation of the unborn child in pregnant women.

All this said --- I still miss having a cat. My first and only cat lived 13 years and I developed serious allergic reactions over time. Thought it was the ragweed pollen in NJ. After cat died allergic reactions subsided somewhat.