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You can also get it from contact with cat feces. The parasite can pass to a baby during pregnancy. Most people infected with the parasite do not have symptoms. Serious disease most often affects infants and people with weakened immune systems. Toxoplasmosis during pregnancy may cause miscarriage and birth defects. Drug treatment is used for people with more-serious cases, pregnant people, newborns and people with weakened immune systems.

Several steps to prevent toxoplasmosis can lower the risk of infection. They often don’t know they’re infected. Swollen lymph nodes that may last for weeks. This can occur in people with healthy immune systems.

But the disease is more serious in people with weakened immunity. An infection in the eye is called ocular toxoplasmosis. Floaters, which are specks that seem to swim in your vision. Untreated eye disease can cause blindness.