Eating infected meat can spread the disease to dogs, and humans too. (reference.com)
The low frequency of infected meat suggests that cats potentially were a cause for much T. gondii infection in the United States.» (hahf.org)
Virtually the entire population of the UK was exposed to infected meat in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but relatively few cases of vCJD have resulted so far. (newscientist.com)