Toxoplasmosis is a treatable and preventable disease. Recent work has shown how important prompt diagnosis, treatment and management associated medical problem is. The medicines available for treatment of active infection are effective but have some toxicities. No medicines currently available can eliminate the latent form of the organism which results in risk for recurrent disease. Better medicines to treat the active and chronic latent infection are needed. A chronically infected mother’s immune response (if she is not immune compromised) prevents transmission of the parasite to her baby. This observation proves support for the development of vaccines which will elicit a similar protective immune response for humans.