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[Scampi]

Why isn't anyone talking about the HUGE cyclospora outbreak??????  Between Michigan and Ohio, almost 3000 sickened

 

https://www.google.c...SO_FZvODkvtap0=

 

https://www.google.c...POi9CCmVQZOwvU=

[TimG]

We are, here in Michigan anyway. Our owner has members of their family currently sick with it. I only imagine the numbers will continue to grow as more health providers have a target to test for now.

I've read a few people say they got it from X or X, but I don't think anything official has been released yet as to source. Just strong speculation that it's fruit or vege of some sort.

 

I was driving home last week and almost didn't make it home. I thought I ate something bad for lunch. Was it this? Not a clue.

[Scampi]

oh no!    I hope they are able to find/contain ASAP   

 

what a horrible drive that must have been !!!

[kfromNE]

It's on my radar but hasn't taken a bunch of my time. We manufacture mainly raw meat products and we have no reported cases so far in the US state I live in. 

It has been picked up by local news stations. I believe because they haven't determined the source is why it hasn't made a huge news event. I do hope they find the source(s) soon. 

[GMO]

I was reading about it last night on the BBC website in the UK so it's hitting the press here:

 

What to know about 'explosive diarrhoea' parasite outbreak in US - BBC News

[G M]

I was reading about it last night on the BBC website in the UK so it's hitting the press here:

 

What to know about 'explosive diarrhoea' parasite outbreak in US - BBC News

 

 

Been watching it since the numbers were only 2-300, but yeah, I noticed it hitting some foreign/ international news sites.  Presumably of interest because of the large number of involved cases and World Cup visitors.

 

It's one that can easily hit some huge numbers with fresh vegetables or fruit and sketchy water likely being involved, and warm seasonal weather keeping it going at the source potentially.

 

 

The CDC numbers are only 1/10th of what the states are reporting because the federal agencies decided to stop actively tracking Cyclospora, and most of what they had been tracking for decades.  If you remove the budget and personnel, it turns out that outbreak numbers go down.  That's one way to make a problem go away.

[MDaleDDF]

I live in the mitten, and everyone is talking about it here, and have been.   I don't know anyone that has it, but it sounds pretty terrible.   Apart from the obvious "explosive" poops, as they've cited in the news (which sent my son into a laughing fit at 12 years old), it sounds like the abdomen pain is quite severe in most cases.   

 

Sounds like they still have no clue where it's coming from...

Edited by MDaleDDF, 13 July 2026 - 03:50 PM.

[GMO]

Been watching it since the numbers were only 2-300, but yeah, I noticed it hitting some foreign/ international news sites.  Presumably of interest because of the large number of involved cases and World Cup visitors.

 

I don't think it's just that. We're a smallish country over here so international recalls do make the press. I didn't see anyone linking it to the football in the news. Most commentary on football over here has recently gone along the lines of:

 

1. Why is it in the US, they don't even like football?

2. HOW MUCH?

3. It's coming home... unless they f*&^ it up... which they probably will... but that doesn't scan... it's coming, football's coming home... 

4. Do I have to go to work the next day if the match starts at 1am?

5. I guess Trump isn't turning up at the grounds because the chants would be brutal. 

 

I'm not convinced most English football fans don't have iron stomachs anyway. Most are liberally applying a potent disinfectant regularly to their stomachs and subsist on a diet of burgers bought from the vans outside football stadiums most commonly nicknamed (at least where I live) "death wagons". Yet they seem to survive.

[LostInTheWoods]

I live in the mitten, and everyone is talking about it here, and have been.   I don't know anyone that has it, but it sounds pretty terrible.   Apart from the obvious "explosive" poops, as they've cited in the news (which sent my son into a laughing fit at 12 years old), it sounds like the abdomen pain is quite severe in most cases.   

 

Sounds like they still have no clue where it's coming from...

It seems like they like to use "explosive" a lot, just to draw eyeballs. Not just diarrhea, "explosive" diarrhea...

[LostInTheWoods]

I don't think it's just that. We're a smallish country over here so international recalls do make the press. I didn't see anyone linking it to the football in the news. Most commentary on football over here has recently gone along the lines of:

 

1. Why is it in the US, they don't even like football?

2. HOW MUCH?

3. It's coming home... unless they f*&^ it up... which they probably will... but that doesn't scan... it's coming, football's coming home... 

4. Do I have to go to work the next day if the match starts at 1am?

5. I guess Trump isn't turning up at the grounds because the chants would be brutal. 

 

I'm not convinced most English football fans don't have iron stomachs anyway. Most are liberally applying a potent disinfectant regularly to their stomachs and subsist on a diet of burgers bought from the vans outside football stadiums most commonly nicknamed (at least where I live) "death wagons". Yet they seem to survive.

I'm low key rooting for England just for #5.

[MDaleDDF]

It seems like they like to use "explosive" a lot, just to draw eyeballs. Not just diarrhea, "explosive" diarrhea...

Lol, it's literally in like every definition out there.   This is what AI on google says:

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[MDaleDDF]

I'm low key rooting for England just for #5.

Meh, if the US was still in it he'd show up probably.   If anyone thinks a few chants would bother him, they ain't been following along.

 

Personally, as someone who watches the cup games, I'm glad the US is out so we can get down to business.   They were a distraction that was never a real contender anyway.

And here's to the UK knocking Messi out... pretty please.   With sugar on top.

[G M]

It seems like they like to use "explosive" a lot, just to draw eyeballs. Not just diarrhea, "explosive" diarrhea...

 

There are some genuine medical terms that are real eye-catchers.

 

Just imagine being the food brand that gets a bunch of explosive diarrhea stories linked to your name forever on the internet.

[MDaleDDF]

There are some genuine medical terms that are real eye-catchers.

 

Just imagine being the food brand that gets a bunch of explosive diarrhea stories linked to your name forever on the internet.

I had to google to double check that's considered medical terminology, and it is.   Scampi for the explosive diarrhea win!     

 

Lol, this thread is going of the rails...

[LostInTheWoods]

Just imagine being the food brand that gets a bunch of explosive diarrhea stories linked to your name forever on the internet.

 

From what I've seen, it's just Taco Bell at this point. Which is pretty much on brand for them. 

[Syzygy]

And here's to the UK knocking Messi out... pretty please.

 

Sorry I have to correct this, not the UK, England.

UK (United Kingdom) includes England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

GB (Great Britain) includes England, Wales and Scotland

[MDaleDDF]

From what I've seen, it's just Taco Bell at this point. Which is pretty much on brand for them. 

I actually went to Taco Bell last night, and they weren't serving lettuce on their food due to the outbreak.   Oh the irony.

[MDaleDDF]

Well it would appear I dodged a bullet last night!

 

https://www.washingt...iasis-outbreak/

[kfromNE]

From what I've seen, it's just Taco Bell at this point. Which is pretty much on brand for them. 

 

 

 

Truer words have never been spoken. 

Edited by kfromNE, 14 July 2026 - 07:32 PM.

[GMO]

I'm low key rooting for England just for #5.

 

Yeah...  English football chants are something else. It would be brilliant...

[qa_maddy]

There's lots of talk about it on my corner of the internet (social media). 

I got absolutely dragged this morning telling people hey maybe don't blindly tell people to avoid a specific brand of product (and pretend the rest are fine??) because we truly don't know exactly what's causing this yet. 

 

I've heard everything from (in ranking from more likely to least) 

- contaminated water due to flood in impacted areas 

- fertilizer contamination concerns 

- straight up substituting human waste for fertilizer (this one is quite conspiracy brained) 

- companies doing it on purpose???? 

- some sort of conspiracy to keep people from eating vegetables??????? 

 

Knowing how produce processing works (at least with my small amount of experience) - my money is one huge growing area contamination like the Salinas recall in 2018 or something similar. 

All I know is I really should take a break from the internet or I'm going to lose it. lol 

[TimG]

Maddy, I agree with you 100%. Right now, all the speculation is hurting brands more than anything. Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with 'it's probably leafy greans, or fresh produce' in the headlines. When I see 'X product sold by X might BE GIVING YOU EXPLSOIVE Diarrhea !!!!' it just makes me cringe. 

[LostInTheWoods]

Maddy, I agree with you 100%. Right now, all the speculation is hurting brands more than anything. Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with 'it's probably leafy greans, or fresh produce' in the headlines. When I see 'X product sold by X might BE GIVING YOU EXPLSOIVE Diarrhea !!!!' it just makes me cringe. 

I'm really curious how the "Explosive" got tagged to this and is so sticky. I know that it's described as such on the CDC website.

 

But medically, are there different grades of diarrhea? Like it progresses from Urgent to Sudden to Explosive to Violent to OH MY GOD!!!!

[MDaleDDF]

I'm really curious how the "Explosive" got tagged to this and is so sticky. I know that it's described as such on the CDC website.

 

But medically, are there different grades of diarrhea? Like it progresses from Urgent to Sudden to Explosive to Violent to OH MY GOD!!!!

Lol, I had my intestine sectioned about a year ago, and went through at least a year of hell beforehand, and I can vouch:   there's definitely different grades....   I'll spare you description in case you're eating.

[TimG]

Looks like there are two different case#'s on the outbreaks:

This week's updates are:

• A new outbreak of Cyclospora (ref #1390) linked to a not yet identified product has been added to the table. FDA has initiated traceback and sampling. Additionally, CDC has issued an Investigation Notice.

• For the outbreak of Cyclospora (ref #1385) linked to a not yet identified product, the case count has increased from 7 to 8 cases.