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What to know about 'explosive diarrhoea' parasite outbreak in US(bbc.com)
19 points by teleforce 10 hours ago | 3 comments
burnt-resistor an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Doesn't sound fun. No vaccine, reoccurs, difficult to test, water treatment doesn't work, and treated with TMP-SMX.

About 10 years ago, I had a 2-week-long what was most likely cryptosporidiosis episode that was frequent, vigorous liquid.

exabrial 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

wash your vegetables and move on with your life.

consumer451 an hour ago | parent [-]

That is really bad advice in this case.

> Can washing remove Cyclospora?

> No. According to the CDC, there is currently no method known to completely eliminate Cyclospora from contaminated fresh produce. [0]

Thoroughly cooking your lettuce, and other vegetables, is the only way to reliably decontaminate in this case.

If you want to eat fresh vegetables, the correct solution is separating sewage from irrigation water.

[0] https://extension.psu.edu/ongoing-cyclospora-outbreak-highli...