What Is Toxoplasmosis?
6. Complications
In people that don’t have a strong resistance to the parasite, potentially serious complications can occur. One of these is the potential for serious eye infections – and these can result in the patient becoming permanently blind. Other potential complications include mental disability and hearing loss.
In severe cases, the parasite will even infect the brain, causing it to become inflamed. This is potentially a very serious condition and it will be fatal in some cases. These complications tend to happen in people with a weakened immune system for reasons like recently having had a transplant, and having HIV/AIDS.
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