Ep 216 Cyclospora: Explosive Diarrhea Everywhere
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Hi, I'm Erin Welsh. And I'm Erin Alman-Updyke. And this is This Podcast Will Kill You.
We're coming to you with a very rapid fire episode.
Rapid fire episode on cyclospora because it's been in the news. You've seen it in the news. Many of you have asked us about it and we had not yet covered it. So yeah, we wanted to kind of like put some stuff together really quickly to get information out to you about what this thing is, where it came from, and what's going on with the current outbreak, a little bit of that. We will note that we are recording this on Sunday, July 12th. And so this will come out, you know, in a week and a few days. And things, the numbers will probably have shifted by then. Maybe we'll know. 100%.
They will be different.
They will be different. We might know more about, like, what... foods are linked to this outbreak potentially i doubt it maybe but you know we will be giving you some information that is sort of evergreen in terms of what this parasite is and uh why it's a foodborne illness that we have been looking out for for a number of years and then stopped looking out for kind of kind of yeah we'll get to all of that yeah
But first, it's quarantini time.
It is. You know, we're still going to do one even for this. I think we ended up, we landed on this stinks. This stinks. This stinks. It's so accurate on so many levels, Erin. Yep. It really stinks. And it's basically like, honestly, it's water plus your favorite electrolytes.
Non-branded, non-proprietary. And I want everyone to know you probably don't actually need electrolytes in your life unless you are actually having profuse watery diarrhea or working out way more than most of us actually work out.
This is not advice. We do not support supplements and branded supplements.
But you know, it's just quarantini time. It's quarantini time.
Yeah.
We'll post the full recipe, not that you need one for this, honestly, on our website and on our social media. Make sure you're following us there if you're not already. On our website, there's all sorts of things. I don't think we'd really need to get into it for this rapid fire episode. I think people want the information. So let's take a break and begin. Music
So the disorder, the disease we're talking about today is known as cyclosporiasis. It's caused by a parasite called Cyclospora chiatinensis. I think I'm saying that right. There are a number of other species of this pathogen that infect snakes and insectivorous animals, some that infect monkeys, but it's only this one species that seems to be important for humans and which infects only humans as far as we know. It's a type of parasite called an apicomplexin. Okay. Which I know that we've talked about parasites in this phylum before, but I don't know that we've actually said that word.
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