If the vegetables can’t be cooked.

I threw out all the fresh fruit and salad kits that I bought last week. No fresh fruit for the foreseeable future for me. And, only cooked vegetables. I will be taking my lunch with me to work. I usually go between salads and sandwiches for lunch. Not risking that either.

Please note..NOTHING FROM THE CDC.
BREAKOUT IN STATE AFTER STATE AND NOTHING FROM THE CDC.
Nothing from the MSM. If this had happened during the Biden Administration, the would be reporting on it, every hour on the hour. They would be hounding the Biden Administration. Every Secretary would be asked about it, no matter the Department.
BUT NOW, NOTHING FROM THEM.

ABC News
@ABC
Cases of cyclosporiasis, an intestinal infection caused by a parasite, are currently being reported in nearly three dozen states, according to an @ABC News tally.
https://x.com/ABC/status/2075671910881345785

Aakash Gupta
@aakashgupta

There’s a parasite spreading through the US right now that you cannot wash off your food, cannot catch from another person, and will not feel for a full week after you’ve already eaten it.

Michigan alone has close to 1,000 confirmed cases. It’s called Cyclospora, and almost everything about how it works is backwards from what you’d expect.

Start with the washing. The chlorine rinses that kill E. coli and salmonella on your lettuce do nothing to this. The parasite travels as an oocyst, a shell built to survive in soil and water, and it shrugs off standard produce sanitizer. Rinsing your salad is not enough. Cooking is the only reliable kill.

Then the part that sounds impossible. You cannot catch it from a sick person, even one in your own house. A freshly shed oocyst is completely harmless. It has to sit out in the environment for one to two weeks to ripen before it can infect anyone. So it can never pass human to human. Every single case traces back to contaminated water or raw produce.

That ripening window is also why you don’t feel it for about a week after eating. By the time the explosive symptoms hit, the meal that carried it is long gone from memory, which is exactly why these outbreaks are so hard to trace.

And it’s a produce problem specifically. Cyclospora is endemic to warm tropical regions and hitches in on fresh imports eaten raw. Cilantro, basil, and berries have all been past culprits. It’s why cases spike every summer.

Which explains what Taco Bell actually did. They pulled the lettuce, guacamole, pico, and cilantro-onion. They kept the beef, the beans, the cheese. The raw produce was the only possible vector, and cooking neutralizes the rest.

A parasite that’s defenseless the second it leaves your gut, but spends a week in the dirt turning into a weapon.
https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2076179749660205479

Dr. Catharine Young
@DrCatharineY
A year ago, CDC made Cyclospora surveillance optional. It had been tracked for 28 years. Today: ~3,000 cases across 31 states, no confirmed source, and CDC’s own count (843) is trailing what states are reporting by thousands.
https://x.com/DrCatharineY/status/2076294718787293545

Jerome Adams
@JeromeAdamsMD

Cyclospora outbreak update: 🤮 💩

As of July 9 (last reported) CDC confirms 843 US-acquired cases across 31 states, with 86 hospitalizations and 0 deaths. State totals are FAR higher (e.g., 1,500+ in Michigan alone), and cases are surging rapidly with no identified source yet. This is expanding fast -yet so far, no HHS or CDC press briefing. Parents and communities are scared- and unsure how to protect themselves.

Time for real communication and urgency!
https://x.com/JeromeAdamsMD/status/2076272777288450097

No raw fruit is 100% safe, but you can minimize your risk by choosing fruits with thick, inedible rinds (bananas, citrus, pineapples, avocados, melons, and mangoes) that you peel yourself. To completely eliminate the parasite, opt for canned or cooked fruits, as Cyclospora is killed at 158°F (70°C)