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How to avoid cyclosporiasis · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good morning and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast from Denison Forum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's Tuesday, July 14th, 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is an automated reading of today's Daily Article authored by Dr. Jim Denison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today's article is titled How to Avoid Cyclone Sporiasis.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If I lived in South Carolina, I would likely write today about Darlene Graham nor Done, the sister of Lindsey Graham, who was appointed Monday to finish his Senate term.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If I lived in Minnesota, I might focus on wildfires, threatening a tourist area there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But since I live in one of the 31 states where Cyclosporiasis has been reported, I'm focusing on this parasitic outbreak.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I won't describe in detail the symptoms of this gastrointestinal illness, but suffice
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As a result, the Washington Post advises us too.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Wash our hands with soap and water before and after, handling or preparing raw vegetables and fruit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Wash all vegetables and fruit thoroughly under running water before cutting, cooking, or eating.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Scrub melons, cucumbers, and other firm fruits with a clean, produce brush.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The article that I'm referencing has other advice for specific foods as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By now, you may be grateful for the practical help I've provided, but you're wondering why I'm providing it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You wouldn't read my daily article for gastrointestinal advice any more than I would read the American Journal of Gastroenterology for theological insights.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's the story behind the story that interests me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The less relevant we consider it to be, the more relevant it becomes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The reason public health officials have not been able to stop the cyclosporiasis outbreak
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One expert said, we know there has to be a source people are being exposed to, a contaminated food or product.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's not spread person to person.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The problem is that there is a lag of two days to two weeks between when people consume the parasite causing the illness and when symptoms appear.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Remembering what groceries patients consumed or restaurants they aid at can be difficult.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The US food distribution system is so vast and complex that a single supplier may provide different types
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And a contaminated food item can be incorporated into a variety of foods.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Last year, for example, a cyclospora outbreak that sickened dozens of people was linked to parsley that was part of a salad.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we have a widespread number of people with a widespread number of symptoms that can be treated symptomatically, but until officials identify the source, the outbreak is likely to continue.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For those who read the news through a biblical lens,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: from movies that normalize open relationships and adultery to books about a single mother's sex life to criminalizing prayer for those struggling with sexual dysphoria.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We see a society in cultural chaos.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes the source of a problem is obvious.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For example, a wife held her husband's legs to keep him from being sucked out of an airplane's broken cabin window.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When his head was protruding from the aircraft, no one wondered why he was in danger or what to do about it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But unless you're looking in the right place to find the source of a moral illness, you won't find it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God has clearly identified the cause of our cultural chaos.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Fallen humans stubbornly follow their own evil heart, but the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As a result, Scripture commands us, above all else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The new century version translates the verse.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Marcus Aurelius was more biblical than he knew when he observed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So how do you guard your heart?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus said, blessed are the pure and heart, for they shall see God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, as CS Lewis noted in the problem of pain, it is safe to tell the pure and heart that they shall see God, for only the pure and heart want to.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The issue then has to do with what our heart wants, and fallen humans have heart disease.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: From crime to war to sexual immorality, we want what we want more than what God wants.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I am no different, even when I do what God wants.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: My underlying hope is often to coerce Him into then blessing what I want.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Paul's admission resonates with me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to be like David, whom the Lord described as a man after my heart, who will do all my will.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As a result, I need to make his prayer mine each day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Create in me a clean heart, oh God.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And renew a right spirit within me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Will you join me today?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to the daily article podcast.
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