專家:貓屎寄生蟲讓人想自殺大綱

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Women infected with a parasite spread by cat feces run a higher risk of attempting suicide, AFP reported.

據美聯社報道，女性如果感染了由貓屎傳播的一種寄生蟲，嘗試自殺的機率會更高。

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."

美國馬里蘭大學醫學院研究了45000名丹麥女性，然後提出：“感染這種寄生蟲和在今後生活中嘗試自殺之間有一種預見性的聯繫，而且有必要通過進一步研究論證。”

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.

世界上1/3的人口被確信感染了弓形蟲，會致使精神分裂症和行爲改變，但在它進入大腦和肌肉細胞時常常不會產生症狀。