1)About cats-that's what I said,so I'm agree with you,or you are agree with me.
2)About Toxoplasmosis:a)20-40% of healthy adults in US are seropositive(so what!?) b)at most risk for sevsre disease fetus and the imunocompromised
c)Acute toxoplasmosis may mimic infectios mononucleosis....and can persist for weeks or months but it almost always selflimited.
d)A SEVERE DISSEMINATED FORM characteraised by pneumonitis,myocarditis,meningoencephalitis etc...
e)Toxoplasmosis in IMUNOCOMPROMISED patient can cause severe disease.
f)most cases of ocular toxoplasmosis result from congenital infection,that is reactivated later(often in the 2nd-3rd decade of life)
From "The Merck manual".Now,why did I write it?If you do the laboratory test,especially the blood test for child(invasive,painful test)you must know exactly,what this test can recept to you(that's what I think).I mean ,if we "prick" this child,what should we get?The information,that he has Ig for Toxoplasmosis?So what?What shall(shell?-I don't remember )we do with this information?He feels well,he is not imunocompromised etc.so,my opinion,that this test has no sense and not nessesary.The same about CMV.
With the bast wishes.dr.Ira