The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spent this past Friday patting itself on the back, announcing that the largest-ever outbreak of cyclosporiasis in the U.S. has finally ended.
By Grant Colby ·
The American tendency, especially among those who write about public health through the lens of mere statistics, is to treat outbreaks as inconveniences—a cautionary tale best…
By Emilio Quesada ·
The current flurry of headlines about Cyclospora cayetanensis is a textbook example of how quickly localized biological threats can balloon into national crises through sheer information density.
By Dana Whitfield ·
The whole damn thing smells like a failure of auditing. A microscopic parasite, Cyclospora, linked to shredded iceberg lettuce that traveled from central Mexico…
By Ray Dombrowski ·