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.
The story of lettuce is never just about salad greens; it is about systemic fragility. This time, the contagion arrives via Cyclospora, sickening over 7,000 people in a massive multistate outbreak.
The whole damn thing smells like a failure of auditing. A microscopic parasite, Cyclospora, linked to shredded iceberg lettuce that traveled from central Mexico…