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Intestinal parasite spread through food and water contaminated with faecal matter, causing prolonged diarrhoeal illness and often traced to fresh produce.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Sweetgreen cut its full-year same-store sales forecast to a 7-8% drop from 2-4% after a cyclospora outbreak tied to lettuce its cofounder says it never buys. Its shares are still up nearly 28% this year on a recovery its own forecast has yet to show.
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Nearly 13,000 reported cases were tied to recalled iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico. Federal officials still cannot say how sewage contaminated enough food to sicken that many people.
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An 18,445-case cyclospora outbreak was the summer's loudest number, but the one that matters to anyone buying imported produce is 214: FDA foreign food inspections in two quarters, against 805 in all of fiscal 2024.
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Sequencing turns scattered cases into named outbreaks faster than anyone can name a lot code. The cost of that gap lands on whoever's brand is on the finished package.
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The CDC logged more than 15,000 confirmed infections since May against roughly 1,000 in the same stretch last year. Michigan alone counted 14,277, which tells you the counting is the weak part.
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A new WHO burden estimate covering 14 parasitic diseases finds nematodes alone caused 143 million foodborne cases, with two disease groups accounting for nearly the whole total.
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