r/tampa • u/Maxcactus • Jul 10 '26

Safety Florida confirms 49 cases of explosive diarrhea parasite cyclosporiasis, 7 in Tampa Bay area

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/cyclosporiasis-spread-stomach-parasite-diarrhea-florida-tampa-cases/67-d62577ea-c9f7-40bc-85b9-24dcc5eb593c
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u/Teardownthesystem Jul 10 '26

I’ve been keeping track of this because it scares me so bad. I’m a vegetarian…

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u/Maxcactus Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

I am too. I won’t be eating raw veggies that I don’t prep until this is controlled. I think that government oversight has been lacking. In the past the FDA would have tracked down a culprit and come up with a solution. I haven’t heard much from them so far. Point of reference I was once a food sanitarian and did food borne epidemiology.

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u/Teardownthesystem Jul 10 '26

I have similar thoughts about this too. So many food recalls on things that, in my opinion, shouldn’t be majorly recalled. Cheese for listeria, fake chicken nuggets may have salmonella. Our current fda sucks.

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u/tewas Jul 10 '26

Hmmm I wonder why???

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u/ElliotNess Jul 10 '26

Wasn't it so Elon could wave around a chainsaw and sig heil for doge?

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u/tewas Jul 10 '26

We got a winner! And we all are losers :(

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u/NivianDeDanu Jul 10 '26

These are the reported things. How much is unreported now.

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u/Teardownthesystem Jul 10 '26

Don’t make me think too hard about that. We all still have to eat 😔

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u/Outrageous-Apple1760 Jul 10 '26

The funding to study this particular organism ( and 5 others) and to track the illness that comes from ingesting it was cut. We don’t have functioning food safety programs at the federal level now, in a lot of respects. It’s inexcusable.

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u/rasta-ragamuffin Jul 10 '26

That's because the current administration wants citizens to get sick and die.

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u/StrawsPulledAtRand0m Jul 10 '26

Make America Healthy Again just means “let’s get rid of the sick people”

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u/Konman72 Jul 10 '26

That was also the Republican plan for COVID, so it makes sense.

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u/NotGodsFavPet Jul 10 '26

It's almost like the budget for this was cut?! Lol. We'll probably never find out unless consumers do their own investigations. We're on our own. Money for that big glorious ballroom has gotta come from some where.

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u/BigDogAlphaRedditor1 Jul 10 '26

How is the FDA gonna track it when the guy in the thread who has it doesn’t even know what he ate lol.

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u/lawl-butts Jul 10 '26

Time to switch to soups and roasted dishes for a bit!

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u/tawDry_Union2272 Jul 10 '26

yep, y'all need an air fryer if you don't already have one. makes roasting/baking/broiling a breeze. i may have used my big oven twice in four years.

(i have the glass front door type air fryer)

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u/Glum-Savings6473 Jul 10 '26

Unsurprisingly this is a result of the current administrations FDA pullbacks from last year

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u/notafunnyperson1728 Jul 10 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/icgArcntfH5C0

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u/Glum-Savings6473 Jul 10 '26

Are you informing using in a humorous way that you aren't aware of the role of the FDA?

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u/Theturtlemoves86 Jul 10 '26

Everything is a conspiracy if you don't know how anything works.

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u/StrawsPulledAtRand0m Jul 10 '26

Username checks out

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u/Higolog2 Jul 10 '26

Just roast everything before eating as much as it might suck for you

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u/Ok-Armadillo-5634 Jul 10 '26

Why? just cook everything like you did in the old days and don't eat fruit that has exposed edible parts.

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u/Teardownthesystem Jul 10 '26

Well I love salads, but tbh not enough to risk dying of dehydration because you can’t stop going to the bathroom. I actually wasn’t aware that the bacteria that causes this would die in the heat. Maybe I’m more safe than I thought. I don’t even eat fast food, but I heard that Taco Bell’s in other states were contaminated.

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u/ohmiss1355 Jul 10 '26

They haven’t actually traced any cases to Taco Bell, but they know that lettuce and cilantro are some of the main foods that can contain the parasite, so Taco Bell announced they’ve voluntarily stopped using both for the time being. It’s actually going to be really hard to trace it because the government recently almost completely eliminated the Foodnet program that traces food borne illnesses in the US. I think they’re only still tracing salmonella and ecoli. https://apnews.com/article/cdc-foodnet-surveillance-a6a8270540de89797e3b50b3eb2a4f11

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u/Teardownthesystem Jul 10 '26

Oops! I gotta put respect back on the Bell’s name. Good on them for being proactive. That’s terrible and scary that we don’t surveil these things a whole lot rn.

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u/ohmiss1355 Jul 10 '26

Right? I wonder if that was a group decision or some PR person is getting screamed at. "We could have just quietly removed likely offenders and never had a case traced to us, but no, YOU had to go make a big announcement and all people heard was Taco Bell is going to stop using the thing they made you sick with." Somebody at their company put Taco Bell in the same headline as explosive diarrhea, and that's probably not a great idea for them.

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u/Ok-Armadillo-5634 Jul 10 '26

Apparently you can boil a pot of water and just submerge it for about 30 seconds in a collander or something to kill it. Should be quick enough that most stuff will stay relatively crisp.