Caroline Hopkins Legaspi

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The Daily · The Cyclospora Mystery: How Human Poop Got on So Much Lettuce · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

And the parasite emerges from these oocysts and starts to infect the cells that line your intestine.

And so this whole process can take anywhere from a few days to two weeks as this parasite comes out of these little oocysts and begins to reproduce.

First, you know, just asexual reproduction.

Then it's reproducing sexually, so with each other.

And just exponentially, there's more and more and more of these.

Yes.

So at that point when these cyclospora parasites have infected your intestinal walls to the degree that you can't absorb the nutrients and the fluids that you're eating and drinking, that's when you start to see this really, really bad diarrhea that people describe as explosive, debilitating.

They can't go to work.

They can't go to birthday parties.

They're just sitting on their toilet and they're miserable.

So these interviews are tricky because few people can remember exactly what they ate for, you know, weeks.

And if they do remember, they might remember, I had a taco, not I had a taco with shredded iceberg lettuce and cilantro and peppers.

But with enough of these interviews, you can sort of start to tease that out.

And that's how investigators landed on shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms, grown in Mexico, sold at Taco Bell.

And those bags of salad mixes that you see on the grocery store shelves or, you know, washed, pre-cut lettuce, that's often from Taylor Farms as well.

So we don't know what happened on this farm or farms in Mexico.

And we honestly might never know because a lot of these outbreak cases end up as cold cases.

They're never solved.

But we can look to some of the cases that have been solved in the past as examples and sort of tease some hints out of those of what might have happened.

And a lot of that points back to agricultural water.

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