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Woman’s ‘Highly Unusual’ Pneumonia Caused by Parasite-Tainted Deer Meat

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A Florida woman’s serious pneumonia that landed her in the hospital turned out to have a very strange culprit: deer meat tainted by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Though it took some time for the woman’s doctors to discover the true cause of her worsening illness, they were able to treat her in time once they did.

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Source: gizmodo.com