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Ep. 211 Cyclospora and Salad Diarrhea · Privycast

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It's described as very watery and intense.
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This is bad, because it can also come on suddenly.
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Intense, watery diarrhea is not what anybody's looking for.
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Welcome back to Privy.
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Privy is a podcast about bathrooms recorded from my home bathroom.
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I'm your host, Hunter Hoover.
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And I love bathrooms.
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Welcome back, everyone.
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Thank you for being here.
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And uh it's summer, and we're we're actually we're we're we're rounding these weird, like, we're getting ready into the dog days of summer.
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It's hot.
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Um, at the point of this episode's record, we're staring down what could possibly be one of the sweatiest.
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100 degree days, and we're gonna talk a little more about the sweat later on this month.
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Stay tuned, or maybe even next month.
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Who knows?
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It's hard to tell.
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And I'll go ahead and get the rant out of the way right now before.
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So this episode is being recorded August 3rd, full transparency, very close to the episode's release, I might add.
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And what's really frustrating, what what a what'll really chap your what really chap your nard is yep.
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Gonna go ahead and double check, but yep, as of the date of recording, might as well be might as well be August 4th.
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How late I'm on this.
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Still no America's best restroom 2026 candidates to vote on.
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So that that sucks and that's very bad.
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And it's a real shame because every year the Sintus Corporation, Sintus, shout out Centus, huh?
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Every year they're they they put out the America's Best Restroom voting.
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And they pretend like it's been sitting there for weeks and months.
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And they're like, oh, you have until August fifteenth to vote.
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And it's like, bro, it's not even been up for two weeks.
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Which, if you do the math, if they do their normal August fifteenth nonsense like they usually do.
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If they if it comes out tomorrow, that's 11 voting days.
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It's not well, there's a lot of people in this world that hadn't even found out about America's best restroom in that amount of time.
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And so
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They like on their website, they still are saying, like, if you want to submit your bathroom for the 2026, listen, nominations has have to have closed.
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We have to move on.
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Please.
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Syntus Corp.
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America's best restroom people.
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For the love of all that is bathroom, you have to get on this.
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This should be a one month window.
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So people can get hyped.
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I want to get hyped.
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I wanna see the contestants so we can cover them.
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It I I'm Jones in for it.
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And every year you guys are like, Whoa, well, we'll figure it out.
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We'll get it all posted up.
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It's really frustrating.
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And if you're a return listener to the show, you know that I've griped about this in years past.
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And and based on how things seem to be going, I will continue to be griping about it in the future, which is frustrating.
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I don't want to gripe.
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I I it's it doesn't help anybody.
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But I don't know how to enact change.
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I've I've
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Tweeted at him, I've Twittered at him, I've extatted at him, all the things.
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And so as that lack of communication from this company, it really puts our August and September release schedule in a little bit of a flux.
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So stay tuned.
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There might be an off schedule release.
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There might be a strange, like breaking news.
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Stay tuned.
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We want to bring you the coverage of America's Best Restroom.
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But the way that Sintis does it is a lot of times we end up bringing that coverage a little too late, which sucks.
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I don't like that.
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It's not my fault.
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But it looks it's a egg on my face, you know.
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But it's summer.
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We're fully in the throes of it.
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And years ago, as part of our s privy summer plans, we discussed swimming pools.
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And all the fun that a person can have and be having while they cool off at the pool is a good time.
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I'm hit or miss on the pool myself, but in that episode, we reminded ourselves that a person never really gets all the poop out of their butt.
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Like that's wisdom.
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You never
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You never have all the poop out.
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And that is actually, it's the people like, oh, the reason you shower, but the reason you shower is actually to keep to wash off like the sweat and the oil from you and help keep
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the effectiveness of the bacteria and parasite killing parts of the pool water functioning at full capacity.
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Consequently, the culprit from when people get sick from the pools, namely from drinking that stanky, stanky poo water that happens when you go swimming.
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You get throw up, you get diarrhea.
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The bathrooms too, the best friends when it comes to being sick.
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My my co worker caused di calls diarrhea the cha cha's.
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And the the bacteria that causes that when you go swimming and get too much of that pool water in your mouth is cryptosporidium.
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Now, we talked a lot about cryptosporidium.
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Crypto, as his friends know him.
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It was a lot of fun.
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We we talked pool etiquette.
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We warned of the dangers of swimming and drinking the water.
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Somebody's infant baby swim diapers just been teabag soaking.
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Like I got I got some tea right here.
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And we got teabag.
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You know.
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Tea.
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There's the bag.
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There's teabag.
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And this tea bag is the infant baby's diaper right there.
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And then you just
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As it soaks up and soaks in and really, really marinates the baby pee and the baby poo.
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And that's nothing against the babies.
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They can't help it.
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They're still learning that part of their life.
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But it sucks.
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No big deal, but it's kind of a bummer.
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But it wasn't until recent that I was reminded of that episode, not because of the pool, which my kids have have thoroughly enjoyed very recently, or because I myself had
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diarrhea.
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I haven't.
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I swan to John.
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I have not had the Cha Chaws in some time.
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Praise be to he.
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But there's a new menace on the scene.
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And I'll be honest, I'm getting to this a little late to the game.
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It's giving everybody the diarrhea.
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It's giving everybody the bathroom rumbly tumblies.
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This week we're going to discuss and how the timing, though kind of perfect, couldn't be worse.
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And so, to introduce today's episode, I think the best way to proceed on this is by way of a very full.
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and hopefully not too liquidy.
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Segment of Who in the New.
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Now before we get on to the full on coverage of this poo in the news, and before I selected any one specific news article to discuss, I want to just read you a number of the
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names of these headlines that were coming out.
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Now, again, you could probably go search and you're like when I put all this together, this was a couple weeks back, it was a little more fresh, the little diaper was a little
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more fresh.
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But if this is what they were coming up with on the first couple weeks of these news articles, I can't imagine that it got less exciting.
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CNN reports on July fourteenth, quote, Michigan says diarrhea outbreak may be linked to lettuce.
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Salad greens as cases rise above three thousand.
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The Idaho Capitol Suns headline from seven hundred fourteen read Idaho report, Idaho reports first parasitic diarrhea infection amid a nationwide outbreak.
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Sorry, Idaho, it's a tough pull and it only means one thing.
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The squirts are spreading toward the west coast.
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You gotta run.
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Hide your kids.
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Um, let's see where we're at now.
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So currently we are at
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So recalls.
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Yeah, it's bad out here.
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It's bad out here for these shrimps.
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You know what I'm saying?
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BBC said, quote, explosive diarrhea outbreak remains a mystery as officials struggle to find sources.
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Now, the source is is your rumbly tumbleys.
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And they've I think they've mostly cracked the case.
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The Scooby Squad cracked the diarrhea lettuce case.
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The the case of the diarrhea lettuce caper has been solved.
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But my favorite is the CBC or the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, whose headline read, quote, a diarrhea-causing parasite has infected more than 1,000 in the US.
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Is it in Canada?
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First of all, way to make it all about you again, Canada.
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Like just let America have diarrhea and not try to make it about you.
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Canada's all dang it.
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Canada is always trying to make America's diarrhea about them.
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They're always doing it.
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They're sick of it.
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Just let us have diarrhea and you go do whatever you do up there in your maple covered north.
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Frosty forbidden north.
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But one which introduces what I hope can be an informative and entertaining tone is none other than PBS, the public broadcasting station, whose article we will be discussing.
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I will note the internet says that Vox's is the funniest, but the way they make me sign up with my email to even read that article, I ain't doing it.
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Sorry, Vox.
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Maybe s slide your boy one free article every now and then.
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Like just chill the heck out.
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This PBS article is titled What You Need to Know About Cyclosporasis Outbreak.
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In this article, what you need to know about the cyclosporiasis outbreak, it just details that this batch of cyclospora, which is what they've figured out is the actual like
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parasite that is causing this, it's foodborne parasite.
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It has hit the United States.
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And while at the time of this like at the time that they wrote this article, they hadn't identified a source.
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So again, they were still like, we're not sure.
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We're not sure what to do.
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They have not identified the source, but the author noted that Michigan seems to be at the epicenter, the ground zero of this salad infused diarrhea hellscape.
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When the article was written, it was again almost a month ago now.
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It's crazy.
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There were 1,500 confirmed cases of this cyclospora parasite diarrhea in Michigan alone, with more cases popping up in nearby states every day.
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It should be noted, the illness is not fatal.
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You just poop a lot and you're gonna poop for a really long time.
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At the time
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Of of this episode's recording, it says that there was about two thousand official confirmed, definitely tied to the thing that happened that caused it.
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We'll get to that in a little bit.
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And probably eleven thousand or more localized reports and at least two deaths.
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My guess is that those who died, it was complications, you know, the medically unwell.
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Still sad, very bad.
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The bathroom situation that ensues is described by the article using some of the most unfortunate adjectives.
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Any anytime you talk about anything happening in the bathroom and you select the adjective explosive, and while most cases last few days there are reports of it lasting up to a
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month, that's a long time to have diarrhea.
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Let alone explosive diarrhea.
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I think I could do diarrhea for a month.
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What who am I about who am I kidding?
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I've done diarrhea for most of a lifetime.
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But explosive diarrhea, that paints a picture, brother.
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And one month long explosive diarrhea, it's tough to go to work.
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Like that, you're gonna that's gonna affect your your day to day.
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It's a long time.
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Diarrhea, what you gotta understand about diarrhea.
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Listener, if you're hearing this, you're like, diarrhea for a month.
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Yeah, right.
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Diarrhea for how long?
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uh Diarrhea is a lifestyle.
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It is.
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And and those who have ever had the diarrhea lifestyle know what I mean by that.
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I see you.
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PBS's article goes on to answer an important question.
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What the what the flippin' heck is this cyclospora parasite that's making everybody deuce royale themselves?
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And it doesn't really answer the question.
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It says like, yeah, what is this thing?
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And then it doesn't answer it.
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It notes not everyone who contracts the parasite will have poop yourself silly symptoms, which is great.
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That's how we separate the men from the boys.
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We give them the tainted lettuce and see who squirms.
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It spreads through eating food or drinking water that has been contaminated with feces or poop for the layman.
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Most people recover without any treatment, fluids, stay near the toilet.
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And I imagine there is a Gatorade involvement in the recovery.
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I started drinking this.
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Man, I should have brought one.
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I started drinking this.
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It's called Element LMT.
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And it's like it's like very salty carbonated Gatorade water.
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It's very good.
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It's very delicious.
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But I imagine you get yourself some element yummy electrolyte goodies when you got the parasite diarrheas.
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And I bet you it doing I bet you it would do a lot for you.
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Really, really helping.
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There's probably some Vaseline treatment that needs to be happening down south.
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Like, stay tuned.
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We're we're gonna be talking all things chafe pretty soon.
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I'm surely I'm currently staring down what is my future.
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I don't want to tell you too much about it, but all I'm saying is as we got a ranked coming up, I won't be eating as lot of as many things as I have in past ranks, but I will
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be rubbing strange creams on myself.
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So stay tuned.
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The recommendation until it's controlled is to thoroughly wash all fruits and vegetables or just avoid them altogether.
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You know, it's crazy when the health folks are being like, yeah, you know, the diarrhea is pretty bad.
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You might just want to eat garbage.
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You might want to revert to like your senior in high school days where you're just housing a couple pizzas here and there.
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The article says the only way to for sure avoid any risk is to cook the vegetables because.
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The parasite dies above 160 degrees.
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160 degrees vaporizes the cyclospora.
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This brings us to the end of Koo in the news.
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Now we are gonna discuss this outbreak because this is a topic of our show.
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We're here to talk about diarrhea.
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But that article in my own ADHD curiosity left me wondering.
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They asked a question what in the world is this parasite?
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And they didn't answer it.
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Thanks, PBS.
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Should have got Elmo.
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Elmo's over there in the office of PBS.
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He could have covered it.
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Cyclospora is not technically the full story.
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That's the genius.
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That's the genus, sorry, of the parasite.
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And there are sixteen species under the cyclospora genus.
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So if you remember back to your high school biology days, kingdom phylum class order family genus rhymes with p genus species, genus cyclospora.
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What is most notable is all of the species underneath the cyclospora come from various animals and their excrement, except for one.
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One of them comes from human excrement.
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Cyclospora cayanantan cayantas kayantanant I didn't get it right.
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I ain't worried about it.
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Moving on.
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Most types of cyclospora actually derive from moles, mice, monkeys, various reptiles.
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The originator cyclospora genus was first found and was described in eighteen eighty one when it was found inside a millipede.
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It's kind of wild.
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Like, who's the bug kid that is like inspecting the bacteria inside the millipede poop or the digestive tract to the point that they clocked the parasite and in turn named it?
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That's wild.
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Do you know how small a millipede is?
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It's crazy.
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But the one in question, the cyclospora friend in question, the one who is giving everybody quote explosive salad diarrhea is of the Cayatinensis.
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That's the human one, if you don't remember.
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This parasite is what is called a coccidian parasite.
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Coccidian parasites form spores that reproduce inside of an animal cell.
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Most of the time, the way that you would get a parasite of this type is by eating uncooked meat, not washing your hands, hold on to that, we'll talk about it, or from cat litter.
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We're gonna pocket that one for the future as well.
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Cyclospora kaiatensis, or just cyclospora as I'm gonna call it from now on.
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From here on out in the show, if I say ki cyclospora, just know that I mean the cyclospora specific to the human poop one was mostly unknown about.
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At least in the parts of the world where there were record keeping and they were tracking parasites.
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And so this one mostly went under wraps.
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Until the late 1900s, almost a full hundred years after they found the first one inside the millipede.
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It kind of goes like this.
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The parts of the world that are doing science to try to understand this stuff and are conducting research and are and are looking at stuff under microscopes and are seeking to
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understand the natural world.
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They're not contracting the illness because those countries have also adapted better and and I would say more helpful means of hygiene.
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It's a catch twenty two.
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The parts of the world that could know about it and report on it are the ones that aren't getting sick from it.
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For some time, the disease which resulted from the human infection from cyclospora was called traveler's diarrhea.
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People would go to other countries where the parasite was well known, maybe not named, but the experience was there, like here we go.
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And it wasn't labeled.
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They eat contaminated food or drink, crap themselves real bad while on vacation or business, and then come home.
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As globalization increased, America and other parts of the world began importing.
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Produce from around the globe, hence the term globalization.
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Parts of the world where cyclospora thrives and maybe isn't combated as much with cleanliness laws and codes.
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This would be fine, as cyclospora again is usually tied to contamination, normally through fecal matter.
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first published report of Cyclospora was in nineteen seventy nine, where the parasite was found in the poop of three people in Papua New Guinea.
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And again, and I've asked this question.
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And and I and I'll I'll say this.
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I posted a clip of our of our dinosaur sewer dinosaur episode.
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And in the clip I I ingest and in you know, I was trying to make a jab
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at an idea, like how silly would it be.
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But I, you know, I made the comment of like, we really s we're really rooting around in all these dinosaurs, huh?
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And I said, you know, like they ain't better nothing better to do in science than this.
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And people were pissed.
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They're like, he thinks everybody should drop everything and go cure.
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So I'm like, no, no, that's not I'm saying.
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I'm just saying like
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Is there is there I what is the benefit of understanding all of these dinosaurs?
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Can somebody explain that to me?
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I don't understand it.
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Like somebody understand to me the benefit of of like under like is it just like, so that way we know about these creatures.
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Is that it?
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Like, because they're definitely doing a lot of guessing.
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And and so, yeah, I'm just gonna leave that there.
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And so no, I'm not saying that scientists scoot around and poop.
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Cause I actually I actually know, because I've done a lot of research about it up for the show, why you would want to root around so much scoot as a scientist.
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I just think it's crazy how often in science they're like, we're digging around in ski.
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We're researching poop.
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There's a lot that you can find out from poop.
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But the first published report of it was in 1979.
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The parasite was found in the poop of three people in Papua New Guinea.
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And when it comes to this brand of cyclospora, turns out we humans are special.
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Humans are the only way that this type of cyclospora can take host.
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Hooray humans.
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Bad news is when it does take host and infects the cell lining of much of our intestinal tract and in doing so increases mucus production and in time rupturing those cells when
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this happens in large scale, in an enclosed space with one main exit, it produced and what I and science prefer to call diarrhea.
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Did you know that diarrhea is the scientific term?
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Diarrhea is scientific term.
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Notably, if I have cyclospora today, deuce my drawers real bad, that poop isn't likely contagious.
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Person to person spread is almost never how this thing goes down.
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Rather, when human waste infects something else, and the parasite is allowed to grow to maturity in that space, and then is ingested by humans, that's when you have the recipe
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for disaster.
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And so to bring it back to where we started, how do we get here?
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With all these cases popping up all over the United States, people are like, I've got the diarrhea real bad, and I think the lettuce did.
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I think it's just people don't want to eat lettuce.
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I get it.
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They don't know exactly where the produce or where they come from.
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Now, at the point of recording, when I wrote this, they were like, Yeah, they're not sure.
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We're watching out.
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They've pretty much targeted it to Taylor Farms.
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And yeah, we'll we'll get back into that.
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But it's an unfortunate poll.
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Taylor Farms.
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It's a tough pull.
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Sorry, Taylor Farms.
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But we should also note cyclosporasis, the illness that cyclospora caused, has outbreaks occurring in the US every year since they started to track it in the year 2000.
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Most notable were an outbreak in 2005 in Florida, which was from poop-infected basil, imported from Peru.
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Since then, there's been a rise of cases.
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In 2016, they averaged 500 cases.
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It jumped in 2018 to 3,500.
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The previous record number of outbreaks in a year occurred in 2019.
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2003 had about 3,000 confirmed cases.
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And to put it plainly, this isn't a new thing.
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Cyclospora's been around a minute.
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It is, however, the worst outbreak of it that really they've ever seen.
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And now there's, like I said, there's been over like
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11 going on 12,000 cases across the country.
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The Cyclospora cases tend to continue to pop up throughout August and September.
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That's the trend.
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And they anticipate that in total, this whole outbreak will be about 27 times worse than the outbreak was last year.
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It's bad.
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It's tough.
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And what was really frustrating for a lot of people for a long time was this was essentially mystery diary.
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They didn't know where it was come from.
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They were like, I'm eating healthy, I'm exercising, I'm just I'm just pooping.
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Just dumpies.
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Mystery diarrhea diarrhea is a lifestyle.
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But mystery diarrhea is worse than expected diarrhea.
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This being unknown led to the CDC issuing a warning related to vegetables and hard to scrub berries.
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Hard to scrub berries.
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Stay tuned on the show for us as we discuss hard to scrub berries.
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What's wild is there was a lot of brands that were being hit by accusations that it was their fault.
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I said, you know, they've mostly confirmed that it was.
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Probably tied to some Taylor Farms lettuce.
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However, many Taco Bells began putting up warnings saying there's not going to be lettuce or any other vegetables until the end of the outbreak.
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Well, not all like I don't think all of Taco Bell's lettuce and stuff was provided by Taylor Farms.
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I think it's crazy that like the one time that there is a mass hysteria, mystery salad diarrhea outbreak in the United States, the one food brand who could have who could have
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been like just they could have done so well to not have more diarrhea press related to their whole thing.
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Hawko Bell.
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I think Taco Bell saw it coming down the line and they're like, we gotta get ahead of this.
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We have got to begin dissociating ourselves from whatever the brand is.
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And so we're gonna get out and like just say, Hey, we're not doing lettuce for a while, guys.
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Like, I know I know that the lettuce is like one of the few things that we'll put on here.
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But like, we're not gonna do it.
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And the other thing about Taco Bell lettuce, it has nothing to do about diarrhea.
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I I'm convinced that if Taco Bell gives you that bad of diarrhea, you're weak.
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Like you just need to put in some reps.
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But the thing that pisses me off about Taco Bell is it doesn't matter what you order.
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It doesn't matter.
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Order whatever you want.
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But the and and even if the menu item that you ordered doesn't come with lettuce, there will be a piece of Taco Bell lettuce somewhere in your order.
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It's like they have to put it in there for your own health and safety.
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In this case, maybe the opposite was true.
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It would also do well to take a moment of
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Because I know everybody's itching.
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You're like, man, I wish Hunter would describe in in some detail like what this diarrhea was right like.
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The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kid Dig Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases defines diarrhea as quote passing loose or watery stools three or more
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times per day.
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Which, okay.
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That doesn't sound so bad.
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Three loose stools a day could hardly be constituted as a problem, right?
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Right.
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However, cyclosporid diarrhea is not like other diarrhea.
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It's described as very watery and intense.
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This is bad, because it can also come on suddenly.
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Intense, watery diarrhea is not what anybody's looking for.
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You want calm, smooth, expected, and an an end date on the horizon diarrhea if you're going to.
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Often by the time the symptoms run their course, a person can have a loss of appetite, loss of weight.
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It's accompanied by stomach aches, cramps.
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In severe cases, the person may even have a low-grade fever, throw up, though it is uncommon.
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And as I noted, there were two cases of death so far because of all this.
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It's not, it's not good, it's bad.
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I'm not a doctor, but I would say this: if you think you're exhibiting any of these symptoms,
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You've got the cha cha's for more than a couple days, and you're like, I think I ate some of that tainted lettuce.
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Call your doctor.
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When you do, to determine if you are a lucky host of the parasite, you will likely be asked to provide a stool sample.
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And then you get to poop in a bag for science.
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I want to also note the timing of all this.
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So I just think it's crazy.
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I I
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I was pretty s I was salad avoidant for thirty plus years.
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And in the last year, I have taken up to eating a salad, I would say five or six days a week for lunch, every single day.
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And you see that and you're like, but he's fat.
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Yes, I get it.
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That I that's why, hence the salad.
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Hence the salad.
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But and and it's real.
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Like people would be like, yeah, right.
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But a s Swan to John, like Scouts Honor.
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And and it's just a real bummer, you know, because it's like it's like they're trying to get me to not eat the salad right as I'm already buying into trying to get to eat the
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salad.
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Salad decides to be the culprit of ultra diarrhea in the US right, right as I'm getting kicked off on this.
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It's unfortunate.
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And I gotta tell you, I weighed my options and I said, you know what?
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I'm gonna I'm gonna soldier forth with with the lettuce.
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And I've not bought Taylor Farms lettuce.
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I I'm not that's not my thing.
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But I've had no trouble.
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I will say though, I was concerned because we got a we got a box of lettuce that had
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few of them little like red guys in it, little little little aphid guys.
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And they're harmless.
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At least that's what the internet says.
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We we murderized them with some water and some vinegar stuff and whatever.
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But man, yeah, when you when you hear about diarrhea lettuce and you go to take a bite and you see a little little friend moving around, it's like Mother Trucker, you need to get
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out of my get out of my grass patch, brother.
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You I cannot be having the big dumpies.
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It cannot happen.
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Not right now.
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Also, recently there has been somebody dropped a a box of prepared lettuce in like one of those hard plastic containers on the road near our home.
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And every time I drive by it, the lettuce like it's it's like getting smaller and smaller inside the thing as the sun like cooks it.
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Does it stop me from commenting and saying, hey, look, free lettuce?
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Absolutely not.
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I'd be I would be shirking my responsibility as as dad if I didn't do it.
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So I'm I've been free and clear of of lettuce diarrhea so far.
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I'm gonna continue to soldier forth with my lettuce journey.
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And of course, if I if I get the if I get the big lettuce cha-cha-chaws, I will definitely let you know.
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And if you've got them, if you Adam listener, if you're hearing this, if somehow you are one of the the 10 to 15,000 people who's got the cyclospora poops and you want to write us
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privycast at gmail.com, we'd love to hear from it.
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This has been another episode of Privy.
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Keep pooping in the free world.
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Own your stank.
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And now, as always, watch out for that lettuce.
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Don't forget to flush.