As a parasitic outbreak tied to imported lettuce sickens nearly 7,000 Americans across five states, Canada finds itself at the edge of a crisis it has so far managed to avoid. Federal health authorities confirmed this week that neither the cyclospora parasite nor the contaminated iceberg lettuce at the heart of the U.S. emergency has crossed into Canadian supply chains. In the quiet work of border surveillance and interagency communication, the story of this moment is as much about the fragility of continental food systems as it is about the resilience of the institutions designed to protect t
Canada unaffected by U.S. cyclospora outbreak linked to Mexican lettuce
Nearly 7,000 people in multiple U.S. states sickened with cyclosporiasis causing watery diarrhea lasting six to seven weeks.