Importance of toxoplasmosis for human and animal health, present condition, problems and solution proposals in Turkey and the World

Noting the fact that a major part of emerging diseases in humans are caused by animals, food security and sustainable food security can only be performed in a condition that animal health and welfare are secured and sustainable livestock raising is established. Taking into account the fact that animal health directly affects human health and animal products are undisputedly necessary in human nutrition, it is deduced that human health depends on animal health. According to the World Health Organization, more than 60% of infectious agents affecting humans and newly described in the last decade are caused by animals or products of animal origin. Toxoplasmosis is one of the most common zoonotic diseases in the world. Toxoplasma gondii, intracellular protozoan, is a food and water-borne parasite that has recently infected about 1 billion people in the world. In this context, in both humans and animals toxoplasmosis threatening health and causing important economic losses is known as a most important protozoan-related zoonosis. In the context of this presentation with the specified reasons, concise knowledge was given on presenting of knowledge belonging to present condition, concerns, sharing of preventive medicine/public health approaches in the prevention and control of infection, actions to be taken, and solution proposals related to Toxoplasma gondii important but yet ignored in many regions in Turkey and the world.