Parasite is spreading through America’s produce aisles
Summer cookouts often come with a side of salad. This year, that salad could come with an unwanted ingredient: a nasty stomach parasite that has sickened thousands of Americans and shows no signs of slowing down. Cyclosporiasis, a gastrointestinal illness caused by the microscopic parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis, is spreading across more than half the country. As of mid-July, federal health officials had confirmed hundreds of cases stretching across 30 states, with the true number of infections certainly higher since many people […]
