Authorities Confirm Salad Food Poisoning Outbreak, Won’t Say Where Salads Were Sold
If there’s a recall, then releasing the names of the businesses “enhances public safety,” a state official told the Des Moines Register. So they’re not saying. If you ate salad recently and your digestive system has been turned inside-out, it’s up to you to figure out which salad was responsible.
Symptoms of Cyclospora include watery diarrhea, loss of appetite, weight loss, cramping, bloating, gas, nausea, and fatigue. Symptoms can last for weeks or months, and muscle aches and fatigue can continue long after the gross intestinal symptoms are over.
Bagged salads blamed for cyclospora food-poisoning outbreak [Des Moines Register]
Parasites – Cyclosporiasis (Cyclospora Infection) [CDC]
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