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food supply
Coverage of food supply in the Nexus archive.
- Cyclospora spreads through human feces. How did it get into our food supply?
Cyclospora, a microscopic parasite spread through human feces, has contaminated produce in the U.S., leading to a surge in infections. Public health investigators are working to determine how the contamination occurred.
- Baton Rouge General’s Health Tip of the Week: The return of the flesh-eating screwworm
The new world screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite once eradicated from the U.S., has been detected in a calf in Texas. Female flies lay eggs in wounds of warm-blooded animals, with larvae feeding on living tissue. The parasite primarily threatens livestock, posing a low risk to humans and not entering the food supply.