Dylan Scott
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4 Sep
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And so that's a really rapid growth in cases.
And the doctors that I have talked to who are based in Michigan have said, that's just the ones we've confirmed with a test.
The actual number of cases, and so the actual number of people who are dealing with this really unpleasant diarrhea right now is probably even higher than that.
And we've seen outbreaks in the past, maybe a couple hundred people who got sick back in 2018, 2015, 2005.
But never anything like the thousands of cases that we're seeing right now in Michigan.
And the doctors I've talked to there have said it's probably going to keep going and we may eventually reach 10,000 cases of this parasite before it's all said and done.
So I have to say, like, this isn't anybody's fault.
Oh.
Like this, like I said before, this is something that we have dealt with in the past.
It's getting a lot more attention now, I think, because of how big the outbreak has gotten.
But, like, we've dealt with cyclospora before,
And if you want to blame anything, there's probably two things to blame.
One would be we now have this really globalized food distribution system where we're getting leafy greens grown all over the world and shipped to plants in the United States and being packaged into these bagged salad kits that I personally love to buy for lunch and sold all over.
There's this long chain where produce can potentially get infected with cyclospora.
Like the kind of classic example would be, you know, there's a field in some tropical region of the world where they're growing lettuce, it gets irrigated with water that has been infected by this parasite, and then it's all these weeks later after it's been harvested and packaged into something and put on your grocery shelves and you've eaten it that then, finally, you get sick.
And so it's more of a kind of byproduct of the way that our food supply has changed, as well as potentially, and I feel like this is an evergreen topic with any kind of disease like this, climate change is probably playing a role too.
Like, this parasite tends to thrive or is naturally found in tropical or subtropical regions, but we have started to notice it appearing domestically as well.
And that's because as the planet starts to get warmer, there are going to be more places with the kind of climate where this parasite could thrive.
And therefore, you know, it may not be an accident that we're dealing with the worst outbreak ever right now, and it may be a preview of things to come.
This might be just something that we have to deal with from time to time because of these food systems that we've set up and because of what's happening with the planet.
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