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In people with weakened immune systems, especially those with AIDS, symptoms of toxoplasmosis are often brain-related and severe. Also, if toxoplasmosis affects the eyes of a person with a weakened immune system, there may be blurred vision, spots in the field of vision, eye pain and extreme sensitivity to light.
Toxoplasmosis is an infection caused by Toxoplasma gondii, a single-celled parasite that spends most of its life cycle inside cats. Because an infected cat can pass millions of Toxoplasma parasites daily in its feces, toxoplasmosis can spread easily to almost any other animal that shares the environment with cats.