Westfield Health Bulletin: Summer outbreak of uncommon parasite infections shouldn’t disuade healthy eating

Westfield Health Bulletin: Summer outbreak of uncommon parasite infections shouldn’t disuade healthy eating

When reports of a medical condition go viral in the media (no pun intended), patients flock to doctor’s offices, urgent care clinics and emergency departments with the utmost certainty that they have the highly publicized disease. The latest headline is all about cyclosporiasis. It is an infection of the small bowel caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis. This microscopic parasite is found in food or water. Humans are its only natural host. There are…