Toxoplasmosis statistics - About 2,000 women per year will catch toxoplasmosis during their pregnancy.
- In about 800 cases the infection will pass from mother to baby and 10% or 80 of these babies will be severely infected. This means the baby may be born with hydrocephalus (water on the brain), brain damage, epilepsy, deafness, blindness or growth problems.
- The most common source of acute toxoplasma infection in pregnancy is consumption of raw or undercooked meat.
Source:
Cook AJ, et al. Sources of toxoplasma infection in pregnant women: European multicentre case-control study. European Research Network on Congenital Toxoplasmosis. BMJ 2000;321(7254):142–7. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC27431/pdf/142.pdf)
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