I love a good diarrhea map
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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This is when it becomes painfully evident all your food, regardless of brand, comes from one ginormous central processing plant because economies of scale and wealth concentration produced that optimization.
Regulation is killing the economy. Deregulation is killing people. Two things enter, once thing leaves.
Yep. Its not supposed to be that way for many reasons.
I can only assume that these are just the reported & confirmed cases. I would expect the real, but unverified, number of infections is much higher with no good way to get accurate numbers. Especially considering that last I heard/read, the source hasn't been confirmed.
With the elimination of health insurance subsidies this year and substantial across the board increases in rates, millions of people in the USA are no longer insured. Those people are highly unlikely to seek medical help unless/until it's an emergency. Honestly, millions of people WITH insurance are in the same boat, insured, but using it is cost prohibitive, so they don't seek help until it's an emergency.
People are going to go get some loperamide at the store, at best, and try to continue on with life as best they can hoping they don't end up in the emergency room. Can't afford to go to the doctor, can't afford to miss work.
I'm sure thousands of people with weeks/months long diarrhea (and lack of affordable healthcare) handling/serving our food (and everything else) won't be an issue, though. We are great again after all.
I can only assume that these are just the reported & confirmed cases.
Correct. The CDC map is showing lab-verified cases only.
It's almost always one of the lettuces.
I prefer the devil’s kind
Hasn't given me any diarrhea lol
Used to be bean sprouts. That's why most restaurants stopped offering been sprouts.
I'm going back to fried food
Its like that other lettuce outbreak we had years ago, but it was with Ecoli. I remember them removing all of it from the stores when that year hit, it was bad. this time, absolutely nothing go on. Its weird.
It's not weird. It's exactly what people warned was going to happen when DOGE and RFK Jr started slashing staff at the CDC and FDA and shutting down inspection and response teams.
Here in MI with the huge numbers and I was just in a Aldi yesterday. No signs or warnings. Have the traced the source yet?
Yeah my coworker got the parasite couple weeks ago, he's still dealing with it. We go to various grocery stores pretty much every week and there are no posted warnings or notices anywhere.
CDC was also mentioned about 440 others from out of the country, that got sick from whatever they consumed that was during the lag period of testing? (If im understanding that correctly) problem is, we're they all eating lettuce? Where did they traveled to, who and what they were in contact with? Haven't seen any reports on those who were went out lf the country and came back sick.
I've heard rumors about lettuce, but that's unverified word-of-mouth
It's being reported by news sources that lettuce and/or salad greens are a suspect, but it's not entirely certain yet. I'll be cooking all my veggies and greens for a while.
Ugh. Here I was planning on having a salad for lunch. You can't cook salad greens.
Braised collard greens. Chicken stock, onion and garlic, sautee those first in some bacon and bacon fat if that's your thing. Delicious. Not exactly a quick lunch but it's a great dish to meal prep.
Berries as well, but again, nothing confirmed.
Creepy, had to visit the US for business reasons and happy that I at least wasn’t in the MI area.
Edit: wouldn’t have touched the US with a ten mile pole during this shit stain and fascist government, just had to because of work.
Ugh there's more cases in my area than I realized.
It can last for MONTHS?!
What area?