(Detroit, MI) — Lettuce or salad greens may be the source of Michigan’s Cyclosporiasis outbreak. It’s a parasitic illness that can cause intense diarrhea. Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian the state’s chief medical executive, says that early information has shown “lettuce as a common product that regularly comes up during the investigation.”
The finding applies only to Michigan, which has had over two-thousand cases so far. Michigan health officials are telling consumers to avoid prepackaged salads and instead get and thoroughly rinse individual heads of lettuce.
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