Be cauitous around them. But people also get this disease from eating inadequately cooked meat or from contact with dirt that has been contaminated with cat feces. It is still very important to prevent the cat from becoming infected by following good hygiene habits and safe pet guidelines. Toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by the single-celled parasite Toxoplasma gondii. All species of animals, including humans.
Cats are the only animal species to shed the infectious stage in their feces.
All animals however,can disseminate Toxoplasmosis if their infected meat is eaten. By eating rodents, raw meat, cockroaches, flies, or by contacting infected cats, infected cat feces, or contaminated soil. Good, if your cat is allowed to hunt or is fed raw meat. You probably won't since most ingected cats show no symptoms, although sometimes there is transient diarrhea, or more rarely, other symptoms, such as pneumonia, hepatitus or neurologic disease. Chances are unlikely you will acquire the infection from your cat, but caution is advised for high risk groups.