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Toxoplasmi Gondi is a parasite that can reside asexually in most warm-blooded animals – though it is only within cats that the parasite reproduces. An infection occurs through the consumption of infested feline faecal matter. This could happen through eating unwashed vegetables or uncooked meat.

For humans the parasite is more or less harmless, although it tends to cause some strange behavioural effects. In mice and rats however, infection can prove fatal.

Once a mouse is contaminated their ability to process fear goes haywire. Rather than being scared by the scent of cats, the mouse is now strongly attracted to that scent.

This inversion leads the mouse straight into the jaws of the cat; who eats the mouse and becomes a new host. So the parasite finds the perfect environment for sexual reproduction and proliferation.