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turbinetree

(27,897 posts)
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 08:25 PM Yesterday

Trump's CDC Stopped Monitoring A Parasite. Guess What's Spreading Now.

You put a guy who thinks raw milk is a health food in charge of disease tracking, and a disease started spreading untracked. Shocking.

By Conover Kennard — July 11, 2026
A nationwide outbreak of explosive diarrhea is currently underway, and it's tied to a parasite the CDC quietly dropped from federal surveillance back in July 2025. That timing lines up almost exactly with the Trump administration's broader gutting of health and science agencies under the "government efficiency" banner, HuffPost reports.

A parasite called Cyclospora has sickened over 1,000 people across 29 states, with Michigan getting hit the worst of all. The CDC would probably have caught this sooner — if it hadn't stopped watching for it.

The agency's FoodNet program used to track eight foodborne pathogens, until that surveillance simply stopped. Cyclospora, Campylobacter, Listeria, Shigella, Vibrio, and Yersinia were tracked. But in July 2025, right around the time the Trump administration started gutting federal health agencies and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out scientists and researchers, that surveillance ended.

https://crooksandliars.com/2026/07/trumps-cdc-stopped-monitoring-parasite

Twinkle toes RFK jr thinks that we the public should be some big experiment for his whims along side that orange hair traitor, the US Supreme Court and the maga senators..............that gave these two the go ahead to do anything..............JFC..........

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moonshinegnomie

(4,198 posts)
14. sue him into poverty
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 10:27 PM
23 hrs ago

everyone affected by his cuts should personally sue him. if someone died as a result sue him literally for billions . im sure a symapthetic jury could easily find damages for lost of companionship to be worth billions. and he never had an official position in the government since doge was created out of thin air w/o congressional approval.

lonely bird

(3,157 posts)
16. Don't even bother with the legal niceties
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 10:59 PM
22 hrs ago

Confiscate all his assets.

Then send him on a one-way trip to Mars.

Ocelot II

(132,030 posts)
4. The Trump regime is mostly comprised of unmonitored parasites,
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 08:35 PM
Yesterday

so this is entirely on-brand.

Walleye

(45,976 posts)
5. And they have pure hatred for American
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 08:47 PM
Yesterday

I never felt so much like my own government hated me and wanted to kill me.

vapor2

(5,237 posts)
8. I find it frightening that these goons are so self absorbed
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 09:07 PM
Yesterday

so yes paranoia sets in for many of us

Dulcinea

(10,554 posts)
12. They're trying to cull the herd.
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 09:47 PM
Yesterday

People cost money. Billionaires don't want to pay taxes. See how that works?

not fooled

(6,833 posts)
13. Yeah, it's easy to understand why the billionaires want people dying
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 09:55 PM
Yesterday

the thing that gets me is how MAGA has managed to con so many 'Muricans into despising science-based healthcare thereby in essence suiciding themselves.


kimbutgar

(27,779 posts)
11. I'm hoping karma pays back and infects his maga goobers !
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 09:28 PM
Yesterday

Those of us who believe in science will be more careful!

SergeStorms

(21,171 posts)
15. Over 400 cases in New York state.
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 10:44 PM
23 hrs ago

Wash your store-bought veggies and fruits, folks. I mean really wash them, not just a quick rinse.

Raftergirl

(2,034 posts)
19. Rinsing vegetables doesn't really do the job irt this parasite. It's recommended one cooks all all vegatables. .
Sun Jul 12, 2026, 09:37 AM
12 hrs ago

Washing fruits and vegetables with bumps, like raspberries or cauliflower, for instance, or layers like lettuce doesn’t get rid of them.

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