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=== Notable cases === * Tennis player [[Arthur Ashe]] developed neurological problems from toxoplasmosis (and was later found to be [[HIV]]-positive).<ref>[http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1993/ad930239.html Arthur Ashe, Tennis Star, is Dead at 49] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210083031/http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/1993/ad930239.html |date=December 10, 2008 }} ''New York Times'' (02/08/93)</ref> * Actor [[Merritt Butrick]] was HIV-positive and died from toxoplasmosis as a result of his already-weakened immune system.<ref>[https://www.angelfire.com/celeb2/merrittbutrick/Biography.html Merritt Butrick, A Biography] ''Angelfire.com'', accessdate Mar 18, 2011</ref> * [[Pedro Zamora]], reality television personality and HIV/AIDS activist, was diagnosed with toxoplasmosis as a result of his immune system being weakened by HIV.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broward.org/HumanServices/CommunityPartnerships/RyanWhiteProgram/Pages/TheFaceThatDefinedAIDS.aspx|title=The Face That Defined AIDS|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402003625/http://www.broward.org/HumanServices/CommunityPartnerships/RyanWhiteProgram/Pages/TheFaceThatDefinedAIDS.aspx|archive-date=2016-04-02}}</ref> * [[Prince François, Count of Clermont]], [[pretender]] to the [[throne of France]], had congenital toxoplasmosis; his disability caused him to be overlooked in the line of succession. * Actress [[Leslie Ash]] contracted toxoplasmosis in the second month of pregnancy.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1109818.stm | work=BBC News | title=Pregnancy superfoods revealed | date=January 10, 2001 | access-date=May 25, 2010 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070105125031/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1109818.stm | archive-date=January 5, 2007 }}</ref> * British middle-distance runner [[Sebastian Coe]] contracted toxoplasmosis in 1983, which was probably transmitted by a cat while he trained in Italy.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article537461.ece | work=The Times | location=London | title=Olympics bid Coes finest race | date=June 26, 2005 | access-date=May 25, 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510204637/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article537461.ece | archive-date=May 10, 2011 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/03/sports/sports-people-coe-s-disorder-rare.html|title=SPORTS PEOPLE; Coe's Disorder Rare|newspaper=The New York Times|date=3 September 1983|access-date=3 May 2018}}</ref> * Tennis player [[Martina Navratilova]] experienced toxoplasmosis during the [[1982 US Open – Women's Singles|1982 US Open]].<ref>{{cite news|title=PERSONAL HEALTH|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/27/garden/personal-health-247906.html|newspaper=New York Times|date=27 October 1982|first=Jane E.|last=Brody|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827215239/http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/27/garden/personal-health-247906.html|archive-date=27 August 2017}}</ref>
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