In the long, unfinished story of humanity's struggle to feed itself safely across borders, a microscopic parasite carried by contaminated water in central Mexican fields found its way into nearly 13,000 American lives this summer before federal officials declared the outbreak over. The cyclospora crisis — linked to recalled iceberg lettuce and tied to two deaths and hundreds of hospitalizations across 21 states — has ended in the immediate sense, but the deeper questions it raises about international food safety oversight remain very much open. What this outbreak revealed is not merely a failu
Record cyclospora outbreak officially over as contaminated lettuce cleared from market
Nearly 13,000 people infected with cyclospora across 21 states, resulting in 2 deaths and over 570 hospitalizations.