Lena Sun at the Washington Post asked the right question this week: why don’t we know what food is spreading the Cyclospora sickening thousands of Americans? Her answer — that this parasite is one of the hardest foodborne bugs to trace, with a long lag between the tainted bite and the first symptom, a genome too large for our fingerprinting tools to fully read, and a distribution system so tangled that one supplier feeds a hundred kitchens — is …
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