Reply #8: google actually provided lots of links but its not a cat, it's a cat parasite

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http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/004735.html

Toxoplasma Gondii ("Cat Parasite") Schizophrenia Link Studied

Exposure of pregnant women to several infectious agents -- including influenza, sexually transmitted diseases, and Rubella -- have been associated with the later development of schizophrenia. Several studies have been reported in the past month investigating the link between one such infectious agent in a pregnant mother - a common protozoan infection of Toxoplasma gondii - and the baby's later development of schizophrenia.

Toxoplasma gondii is commonly known as a 1-celled parasite carried by cats. But people can acquire it from eating undercooked meat as well as from contact with gardening soil and litterboxes used by cats. Infection by this virus is called "toxoplasmosis". Once it is inside of us either by ingestion (swallowing it) or by inhalation (breathing it in), it lives inside our infected cells.