Erin Alman-Updyke

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This Podcast Will Kill You · Ep 216 Cyclospora: Explosive Diarrhea Everywhere · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

I re-looked it up and I was like, I love learning things like this that I knew once before.

So it is treatable if you can detect it.

So really, a lot of times it's diagnosis that is one of the biggest challenges.

The good news, too, is that even though it's hard to detect and it can last for such a long time, it usually is a self-limited illness in that the mortality rate is very low.

I do not have an exact number.

But for example, in the U.S.

in the last few years, there have been only a small handful, like single digit number of deaths associated with cyclospora.

Globally, it probably contributes much more than we realize to mortality rates, however, because this is a parasite that is endemic in a lot of tropical and subtropical regions in the world where diarrheal illnesses kill children under age five.

It's the leading cause of death.

Yeah.

So the dehydration that can accompany any kind of diarrhea illness is something to take very seriously, especially in small kids and the elderly.

So I don't want to say that this is like not an important illness.

It definitely is.

And we're probably underestimating it overall.

of outbreaks yes associated with cyclospora yeah it's really it's really interesting and like what who is getting the most sick like here in the u.s it's mostly adults whereas in other parts of the world it's mostly children and not super young children but like you know children age two to five ten twelve um and so that kind of gives us ideas as to like how endemic this parasite really is how much is it just something that we live with versus something that is only there occasionally

It's also interesting.

Yeah.

That's such a good question, Erin.

There's not like a perfect answer to it.

It so much depends on how severe your symptoms are.

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