Latest update from USA Today from 4 days ago. Here is also CDC’ s update on the confirmed cases as of July 13th, 2026: https://www.cdc.gov/cyclosporiasis/php/surveillance/index.html
My question to others on here: For those who are located in the marked states with the higher cases, have you heard anything or seen any postage in grocery stores, hospitals, restaurants, anything about warning on increasing hygiene practices for prevention of Cyclosporiasis? I’ve not heard anything since first reading about this, I have family who work in the trucking industry, hospitals, and sales ( to name a few), and I have heard zero heads up or warnings about this.
Cases are increasing but there is lag between lab recorded data and data collected from the hospitals. Here is USA today with CDCs data as of July 13th 2026.
Restaurants and fast food chains have taken precautions: good on them, they need to, but there is no word of mouth on anything. Will still keep following up on the news of this.
Hey, it’s 2026, we need a dynamic diarrhea app for Android and iOS.
I caught it. I’ve been sick for days.
And am in a darker blue state.
Restaurants have stopped serving lettuce, and tomatoes, without telling their customers. Like I ordered a taco salad last night and just got a bowl of meat and sour cream. That’s the only difference I’ve seen.
Store shelves look the same. No warnings about it, have been given.
This is when it becomes painfully evident all your food, regardless of brand, comes from one ginormous central processing plant because economies of scale and wealth concentration produced that optimization.
Regulation is killing the economy. Deregulation is killing people. Two things enter, once thing leaves.
Your undigested food is the thing that leaves.
Yep. Its not supposed to be that way for many reasons.
What is annoying AF is that we have this problem where animal factory farming affects those of us who want to have nothing to do with it. It’s been stupid for a long time, but of course, this maladministration makes everything worse.
Why do we need a map? It’s all in the butt area, right?
Right???
It’s almost always one of the lettuces.
I prefer the devil’s kind
Hasn’t given me any diarrhea lol
Used to be bean sprouts. That’s why most restaurants stopped offering been sprouts.
I’m going back to fried food
6 Unconfirmed cases at my work; all coworkers that had big digestive upset. I’m in one of the lightly affected states.
So far, i have not heard anything from my job. I hope they all get better.
Here in MI with the huge numbers and I was just in a Aldi yesterday. No signs or warnings. Have the traced the source yet?
Yeah my coworker got the parasite couple weeks ago, he’s still dealing with it. We go to various grocery stores pretty much every week and there are no posted warnings or notices anywhere.
was it only watery diarrhea or did it include fever.
Both I think
I’ve heard rumors about lettuce, but that’s unverified word-of-mouth
It’s being reported by news sources that lettuce and/or salad greens are a suspect, but it’s not entirely certain yet. I’ll be cooking all my veggies and greens for a while.
Ugh. Here I was planning on having a salad for lunch. You can’t cook salad greens.
Braised collard greens. Chicken stock, onion and garlic, sautee those first in some bacon and bacon fat if that’s your thing. Delicious. Not exactly a quick lunch but it’s a great dish to meal prep.
Edit: don’t forget a splash of vinegar at the end.
Berries as well, but again, nothing confirmed.
CDC was also mentioned about 440 others from out of the country, that got sick from whatever they consumed that was during the lag period of testing? (If im understanding that correctly) problem is, we’re they all eating lettuce? Where did they traveled to, who and what they were in contact with? Haven’t seen any reports on those who were went out lf the country and came back sick.
If you look on the CDC website for their questionnaire, question 14 begins a section about travel in the past two weeks. If the respondee replies that they travelled outside of the US or Canada, the interview ends. Apparently CDC assumes that if you have the bacteria and travelled abroad, there’s a 100% chance you were infected there.
Their wording of that is so confusing. Did they get sick during the 14 days before traveling, but showed no symptoms? Did they show symptoms but still traveled anyway, or after the 14 days they came back and were fine but later got sick. CDC is not being specific but all of those questions should be getting answered and their statement of that is very vague.
That is where the confusion always go towards and to me, it sounds like they automatically are assuming that this is coming from overseas, whihc is very bias.
Creepy, had to visit the US for business reasons and happy that I at least wasn’t in the MI area.
Edit: wouldn’t have touched the US with a ten mile pole during this shit stain and fascist government, just had to because of work.
I love a good diarrhea map
Ugh there’s more cases in my area than I realized.
It can last for MONTHS?!
What area?
Pacific NW
The PNW is experiencing what it usually does every year for these cases. There’s no evidence of the outbreak happening in the PNW. Most of the cases reported in WA were due to international travel.
https://mynorthwest.com/local/explosive-diarrhea-parasite/4256853
Thanks! I took an admittedly brief look at the interactive map.
I fucking hate that goddamn website.
No map just phone cancer.
The fucking usatoday website should be banned.
What is so bad about it? I see the map?
Not seeing any map in the article at all here.
Thanks, oddly enough that’s not loading at all in the article.
I wonder if it’s a browser difference, I dunno. Interestingly, I was looking at the CDC page just now and it looked different than what I had on my USA tab - loaded yesterday.
I just reloaded the USA Today tab, and it shows this now. It seems they (the CDC) switched the methodology, but didn’t preserve the old numbers, and I guess USA Today just links to that.
Already it looks like CDC is skewing the data, or this is only the lab tested results.
Soon travel advice to the US will not only tell you the tap water in many places is moderately toxic, but also that if you want to survive your trip you have to eat cooked food only. Like in India.
Its like that other lettuce outbreak we had years ago, but it was with Ecoli. I remember them removing all of it from the stores when that year hit, it was bad. this time, absolutely nothing go on. Its weird.
It’s not weird. It’s exactly what people warned was going to happen when DOGE and RFK Jr started slashing staff at the CDC and FDA and shutting down inspection and response teams.
E coli O15h7 strain is the one to worry about.
I can only assume that these are just the reported & confirmed cases. I would expect the real, but unverified, number of infections is much higher with no good way to get accurate numbers. Especially considering that last I heard/read, the source hasn’t been confirmed.
With the elimination of health insurance subsidies this year and substantial across the board increases in rates, millions of people in the USA are no longer insured. Those people are highly unlikely to seek medical help unless/until it’s an emergency. Honestly, millions of people WITH insurance are in the same boat, insured, but using it is cost prohibitive, so they don’t seek help until it’s an emergency.
People are going to go get some loperamide at the store, at best, and try to continue on with life as best they can hoping they don’t end up in the emergency room. Can’t afford to go to the doctor, can’t afford to miss work.
I’m sure thousands of people with weeks/months long diarrhea (and lack of affordable healthcare) handling/serving our food (and everything else) won’t be an issue, though. We are great again after all.
I can only assume that these are just the reported & confirmed cases.
Correct. The CDC map is showing lab-verified cases only.
im on a ACA plan in my state, and ER/urgent is covered but its still pricey per visit. ER has a higher cost.
