A microscopic parasite, carried in the leaves of ordinary iceberg lettuce, has now touched nearly every corner of the United States — a quiet, invisible crisis that has claimed two lives in Michigan and sickened tens of thousands more. The outbreak, traced to contaminated lettuce from a Mexican supplier with a prior history of such failures, is the largest Cyclospora event ever recorded, and it arrives at a moment when the public health infrastructure meant to catch exactly this kind of threat has been significantly diminished. It is, in the oldest sense, a story about the hidden costs of comp
Cyclospora outbreak spreads to 47 US states, deaths reported
At least 2 deaths reported in Michigan; 517 people hospitalized; vulnerable populations including children, elderly, and immunocompromised at serious risk.