Cyclosporiasis is on the rise in the US but the information on how to handle the parasite is very contradictory. Literally heard on the radio this morning that in order to kill Cyclospora cayetanensis, you have to boil your produce but the news is saying something else.

Please be safe everyone.

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[–] 132 points 4 months ago (27 children)

"While state health authorities, the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are working to determine a common thread among the illnesses"

The common thread is the fucking ghouls in Washington DC gutted food inspection, gutted safety inspection, gutted agencies responsible for food safety, gutted the ability to enforce these things.

There is no mystery.

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  • [–] 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (18 children)

    If it was a McDonald's food borne illness outbreak. Trump would be on top of it. He doesn't consume fruits and vegetables.

    Complete bullshit how crippled the CDC and other programs are now. I think I read awhile back that the CDC put out a blank statement when the cuts hit. That they couldn't be effective anymore at reporting and tracking outbreaks and just warned people to avoid anything known to cause illnesses like romain lettuce.

    Which is fucked they had to admit that even though they want to protect US citizens they can't, because they are so underfunded.

    This isn't the first fuck around and find out incident and won't be the last.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Fruits and vegetables are woke.

    but the media as usual completely misses the point....this is transmitted by fecal-oral route, so who is shitting on America's vegetables?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago

    It always has to do with cow manure. Cow manure is used as fertilizer, but the problem is not the cows, its the quality control and sanitation techniques. While harvesting, during the packing process within the factories (who knows how well those are kept clean) and then during shipping. Quality control went down dramatically after covid (it wasn't that great to begin with) and that's why we have been seeing an increase in food born illnesses.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    This is one reason why my family and I started growing our own produce. this is to much.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    We tried that and now our city says no can't have garden unless you're zoned for that. Totally bullshit!

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Look into something like an indoor hydroponic garden. There's some for fairly inexpensive on Amazon and nothing beats homegrown

    I set this little guy up to grow lettuce for my birds. It's got just two pods and no automatic lights and the bubbler turns off with the lights

    I'm in the middle of cleaning the big one, 6 or 7 pods, which can grow a surprising amount. It's got adjustable height and timers for the light

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Same, Im not growing to any kind of scale, but I practice gardening every year.

    Growing your own food is an act of revolution.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Dd you save the seeds for next year or just do different crops each year?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    It depends. My peas I kept going for a while saving seed, nearly four seasons. Last winter water got into my garden bin, and .. the seeds didnt fair well at all, got moldy. So no peas this year

    My pumpkins do really well. I dont even save the seed, I just bury the seeds in fall with a bit of pumpkin flesh and they pop back up every year. This method seems to work well with cherry tomatoes too. It like forced volunteers. I encourage volunteers because they honestly seem to do best in my garden.

    Im not, uh, methodical about what I am doing, Id probably shock a serious gardener with how I go about it. I do buy starts in the spring usually. I used to start from seed every year, but I really just dont have the space in the house for it right now, it does annoy me. The day my son moves out, his room will be becoming my plant room lol.

    So I only plant seeds that can be sown directly outside in spring (like peas) and everything else is starts. Mostly growing potatoes this year. I put some eyed out potatoes I got from the store in the ground, and by god, potatoes are amazing.

    I do have some heriloom corn im growing for the first time. Im going to attempt to save its seed proper this year. Every year is a different expierement!

    how about you?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    We just started this year but my mother and I are experimenting with it. Not from seeds but we got the plants of Basil, roma and cherry tomatoes, one jalapeno plant, 2 bell pepper plants, three sweet potato plants and a cucumber (can't remember the name of it)

    We've only harvested one good cucumber so far, and a couple of jalapeno peppers along with the bell peppers, but got alot of cherry tomatoes. Omg the cherries taste amazing.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Republican policy is great at saving money, till you have to face the consequences of saving that money.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Yeah, and this time around, they're not even trying to pretend to save money, just wreck shit and burn it to the ground. Meanwhile, a certain someone is busy wasting even more money building vanity projects and scamming people with every scheme he and his demented "friends" can come up with.

    The words "fiscal responsibility" aren't in their vocabulary.

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  • [–] 49 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)
    • Alaska
    • Colorado
    • Connecticut
    • Florida
    • Georgia
    • Illinois
    • Louisiana
    • Massachusetts
    • Michigan
    • New Jersey
    • New York
    • North Carolina
    • Ohio
    • Pennsylvania
    • Tennessee
    • Texas
    • Virginia
    • Wisconsin
    

    Edit: damn my formatting to hell

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Jersey jersey = new Jersey();

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    When you're climbing up a ladder and you hear something splatter. Diarrhea, diarrhea

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    For real, this happening ? What was that game you grew a virus from a simple cold to a viral assassin resisting antibiotics and one of the symptômes you could assign to it was exactly this : "explosive diarrhea" Was a good game a shame i can't remember the name

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Sounds like Pandemic 2, or Plague Inc.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Ohhh I know exactly what your talking about. I think it was called Plague Inc. Kinda morbid

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    Running down the gutter with a piece of bread and butter

    Diarrhea 💨💨

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Some people think it's funny but it's really wet and runny

    Diarrhea 💨💨

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    When you’re sitting in a Chevy and your shorts are feeling heavy… Diarrhea!

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    I got some cherries grown in WI and.. I think they made me sick. I washed them under cold water, but maybe not well enough. Im the only one who ate them in the house. Im on day four of feeling nausea, and ..uh discomfort. Near positive I had a fever yesterday, of course my thermometer battery is dead. The cherries dude. I feel like dog shit for days now since having them. I never get sick. This sucks.

    I was gonna call my Dr today, but I really dont want to. I was hoping to feel better today, but.. idk yet.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I wouldnt wait with this, I would immediately call you Dr if I were you. Have this documented

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

    I read online they test your poop. I know its silly but I dont wanna do it :(

    Ive already had four invasive procedures (hello pap smears and mamograms) in the last few months, and I think I am starting to feel better today.

    Youre so right. I know your right, I dont think my monkey brain is gonna let me. I got some ginger beer and some rest in. My husband is home tomorrow, I will heed this advice tomorrow, he has said the same to me, I promise, tomorrow. Thanks for caring <3

    Edit: Im calling rn god dammit

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    For the poop testing, its not invasive. You give them your actual poop and they test it, but your doctor would have to request for the test.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    I go see her tomorrow. I might not have called without this push, thank you, really.

    "here's my poop bag doctor" lmao

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago*

    Access restricted at this time. USA today: bite me. Assholes.

    Explosive’ diarrhea illness reported across US. See map of affected states

    The map at the CDC is more up to date https://www.cdc.gov/cyclosporiasis/php/surveillance/index.html

    Although grain of salt, the US Fed govt. cant be trusted. But the USA map was using this data too.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    MASA - Make America Shit Again

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    [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    "avoid consuming water contaminated by feces"

    Yeah thanks, I don't see any floating shit particles floating in there, but I'll keep on the lookout. Good lookin out

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    Cholera here we come

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Hmm, if I read the list correctly, it's mostly red states. Funny coincidence?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    In the American dictatorship all citizens are required to have the same explosive diarrhea as their great leader Trump.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    ... and God smite the Americans with pestilence because everyone was getting real sick of their bullshit.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    No, alcohol doesn't wash/kill Cyclospora. This means Vodka doesn't help which shows you how serious this is

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    With cucumbers, for example. Pickled cucumbers go nicely with vodka.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    There hasnt been anything said about vodka killing it but....

    Idk about that, im not a fan of pickled cucumbers😐

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    This will get worse if there is no bidet installed.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I love this

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    The local news said Cyclosporiasis is treated with an antibiotic.

    Uh, how is a parasite treated with an antibiotic again?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Well, many people Incorrectly refer to all anti-(parasite, fungal, viral and bacterial/biotic) as the same thing, rather than as anti-infective or anti-microbial as is more correct for a broad term.

    At least we aren't using the Anthelmintic (worm killer, derived from a bacterial neurotoxin) ivermectin to treat a virus, wich has no nervous system.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    What's your confusion? Antibiotics are a pretty common treatment for some types of parasites, including single-celled organisms like the one that causes cyclosporiasis.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    "I've lost weight, ask me how!"

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This article is almost 2 weeks old. Do you have any idea how long that is when it comes to a contagious outbreak? Practically irresponsible to post outdated info on things like this.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago

    all information currently about this outbreak has that timeline from 7 days - 2weeks and they are all are saying the same information. CDCs data was updated 4 days ago, with data tracking as from July 9, which is almost a week ago. There is a 6 week reporting lag when recording this data, due to symptoms of this Cyclospora appreaching 2 days to more than 2 weeks when somwone gets sick. So no, 2 weeks is not outdated data, it is still relevant until something changes.

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