Cyclosporiasis is a disease caused by infection with Cyclospora cayetanensis, a pathogenic apicomplexan protozoan transmitted by feces or feces-contaminated food and water.[1] Outbreaks have been reported due to contaminated fruits and vegetables. Because the oocysts of Cyclospora must sporulate in the environment for 1–2 weeks before they become infectious, direct person to person transmission is very unlikely,[2] but it can be a hazard for travelers as a cause of diarrhea.
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Cyclosporiasis primarily affects humans and other primates. When an oocyst of Cyclospora cayetanensis enters the small intestine, it invades the mucosa, where it incubates for about one week. After incubation, the infected person begins to experience severe watery diarrhea, bloating, fever, stomach cramps, and muscle aches.[1]^
The parasite particularly affects the jejunum of the small intestine. Of nine patients in Nepal who were diagnosed with cyclosporiasis, all had inflammation of the lamina propria along with an increase of plasma in the lamina propria. Oocysts were also observed in duodenal aspirates.[3]
Oocysts are often present in the environment as a result of using contaminated water or human feces as fertilizer.
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"Cyclosporiasis is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated by feces containing the parasite. Historically, people would acquire it outside the United States.
However, of the 190 cases reported to public health authorities between the start of May and the middle of June, 145 involve someone who hasn’t traveled beyond US borders in the last couple of weeks."
Just say it, the US is a shithole country now so of course we are starting to get awful diseases locally.
…sharting to get awful diseases…am I right?!?
Does this have anything to do with how we deregulated all the food production and gutted the FDA and replaced everyone there with lobbiests from the companies that produce food? Or something like that?
eating food or drinking water contaminated by feces
The fuck are you doing, America?!
Washing hands is woke!
While this doesn’t happen often, it’s not unheard of. You might remember an outbreak from 2018 linked to salads sold by McDonald’s.
See? Not the first time. Last time it happened was 2 years into-
A true shitpost. As I’m taking a shit, no less. Bravo.
In all honesty, you should probably leave it behind.
Oh nos, better ask RFK what we should do. I’m sure he will know the answer…
Go for a swim in a cesspool to build up your tolerance
ObviouslyHmm, thought for sure there would be some racoon dick involved but a nice swamp swim sounds about right.
Quick everyone jump in the reflecting pool
Build up his tolerance so that he can poison us all
Build immunity by snorting the leftover sprays from the seat.
Better load up on more horse paste…
This was the worms plan all along…
5th dimension antimatter fluoride worms. I’m calling it now. That’s why CERN moved the antimatter across campus to flush it into the underworld system.
Swim in it!
Who needs a poop knife, I have diarrhea!
It’s and old reference, sir, but it checks out.
At this point, the shitpost comm is going to be able to just actually focus on literal shit related stories.
reality is enshitttifying aughguhah!
Headline hits differently if you read it while on the toilet.
Especially if you have diarrhea 🤣
Hasn’t there been a “surge of explosive diarrhea” running the country since the 20th of January 2025?
that’s technically a bolus of explosive diarrhea
Even Mother Nature is exposing the US is a shithole.
Wouldn’t this be mother nature helping the US to be a shithole? The disease is nature.
It’s just Trump on a rally tour again. Explosive Diarrhea is his SS codename.
I didn’t think “explosive diarrhea” was a real term. Not surprising though, water treatment has been failing infrastructure for many years. Flint Michigan put it in the public eye, and it’s gotten much, much worse.
That and decades of deregulating and vertically integrating the food supply.
The Noah Kahan concert I incident makes more sense now.
I’ve been using a water filter to filter my tap water for years, because tap water tastes nasty.
WHO’S LAUGHING NOW, BITCHES! I mean, not me because things still suck, but at least I’m reasonably sure I won’t get a disease after my city reduced funding for water treatment.
I don’t really think the origin of an outbreak that is spanning a third of the continental US, with the speed it apparently is, as geographically scattered as this seems to be, is a “water system” issue.
Idk what kind of water filter you’re using, but it’s probably not filtering out bacteria.
It’s a sawyer, and both marketing materials and real world testing say otherwise. Personal experience also tells me my filter is keeping me healthy while my neighbors don’t even bother listening to boil advisories.
You might filter small quantities expensively that way, but not your bathing water.
Good thing drinking bathwater isint a thing…right?
water filters won’t filter out bacteria or viruses. Most of them just remove chloride ions, which then encourages bacterial growth.
My tap water goes through months of smelling funny at a time where I get nervous that it is unsafe to drink. I thought about buying a filter for the tap like a Brita filter or something…but my (admittedly very minimal) research showed that these only filter out things like mineral contaminants. Bacteria and other pathogens don’t seem to get filtered out by most standard filters that people are using. It’s just that they filter out the hard water.
What do you use?
I think the only real answer is RO and UV filtration.
RO won’t remove everything, but UV will kill everything.
Great, time to reroute the house plumbing through the aquarium UV.
I used to live outside of Dallas and they had an algae bloom during the summer in whatever reservoir that would make the ice maker reek of garlic for a few months a year in the summer.
Yeah I suspect it is something benign but similar like that. Problem is that I really don’t know that I have a way to know for sure. And anecdotally, my recurrent stomach issues significantly reduced once I stopped drinking my tap water. Mine smells like pond water tho instead of garlic lol.
No, it’s not my water heater. I had it replaced and the new heater smelled the exact same even when brand new before any possible sediment accumulation.
A reverse osmosis system is probably your best bet. You can pour pond water in them and run lab tests with the results. Its basically distilled water though, so you want to make sure you get your minerals somewhere.
For drinking pure water, we use a brita tap filter, and a sawyer filter straw, and just have it gravity feed into a pitcher. The pitcher usually doesn’t last a full day.
For cooking, we just use the tap filter and a cheap gravity filter with a reservoir. No need to go all out when you’re boiling the water lol
The Sawyer filter can be cleaned by forcing distilled water through in reverse, it unclogs the straw/membrane filter, but it only works for so long. Luckily the sawyer still works like a charm after thousands of gallons.
Disclaimer: I have not been testing for bacteria or other contaminants, I just go by taste and swap filters when something tastes off. I have no proof this filters everything, but neighbors have gotten sick around times when boil advisories go out, when we’ve been healthy the whole time. Could just be coincidence.
Luckily the sawyer still works like a charm after thousands of gallons.
or, aside from removing chloride, you didn’t need it.
