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Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that has been studied for its potential role in diabetes, but the evidence is mixed.
Yes — parasites can and have been found in the human pancreas, but such occurrences are rare, geographically uneven, and medically distinct from viral/bacterial causes of pancreatic disease; documente...
Multiple lines of evidence—case reports, animal experiments, seroepidemiology and mechanistic papers—have linked parasites, most prominently Toxoplasma gondii, to pancreatic pathology or altered diabe...
There is no established single parasite proven to cause type 2 diabetes, and therefore no scientifically supported claim that ivermectin “kills the parasite that is associated with type 2 diabetes.” S...
A systematic search of the provided reporting finds no prospective human cohort studies that directly track Toxoplasma gondii seroconversion and then follow participants for incident (new-onset) diabe...