"Cyclosporiasis is caused by a single-cell parasite that’s carried in human feces. It gets into food when water contaminated with feces is sprayed on crops. Once on plants, in the humid environment of a farm field, it begins to multiply, said Dr. David Freedman, professor emeritus of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. It can often be a problem for travelers, though the CDC says the cases currently under investigation did not report travel in the two weeks before they got sick."

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/03/health/diarrhea-causing-parasite-causing-misery-across-several-states

The disease is endemic in places like India, and historically most cases in the US were from people who visited the likes of India or Haiti on vacation then come back. But now it's linked to produce grown in the US with most victims claiming to have not traveled recently.

I wonder what could have caused this...

SAAR