Is toxoplasmosis life long?

Submitted by Angel_thebro t3_1153b7s in askscience

Ok looking up information on toxoplasmosis says that 1/3 of people have it globally. But also it says that most healthy people won’t nt need treatment and will recover from it.

So which is it?

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johndburger t1_j93nt8z wrote

You may be confusing the infection with the resulting disease that some infected people develop. By some estimates as much as half the global population has been infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, but many of those people never develop symptoms of the disease toxoplasmosis. And for those that do, many of them require no treatment.

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Lepmuru t1_j9b1knw wrote

Replying to johndburger (#1,863,846)

Quite similar to infection with HSV-1 (herpes simplex virus type 1).

WHO estimates that 67% of people below 50 are infected worldwide. Still, you don't see 2 of 3 people regularly developing cold sores.

Infection with a pathogen does not necessarily mean showing signs of disease.

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