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[-] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 156 points 2 weeks ago

"Cyclosporiasis is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated by feces containing the parasite. Historically, people would acquire it outside the United States.

However, of the 190 cases reported to public health authorities between the start of May and the middle of June, 145 involve someone who hasn't traveled beyond US borders in the last couple of weeks."

Just say it, the US is a shithole country now so of course we are starting to get awful diseases locally.

[-] Pinkie_Toe@lemmy.world 59 points 2 weeks ago

...sharting to get awful diseases...am I right?!?

[-] foxwolf@pawb.social 26 points 2 weeks ago

Does this have anything to do with how we deregulated all the food production and gutted the FDA and replaced everyone there with lobbiests from the companies that produce food? Or something like that?

[-] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 11 points 2 weeks ago

While this doesn't happen often, it's not unheard of. You might remember an outbreak from 2018 linked to salads sold by McDonald's.

See? Not the first time. Last time it happened was 2 years into-

[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

eating food or drinking water contaminated by feces

The fuck are you doing, America?!

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

Washing hands is woke!

[-] stick2urgunz08@lemmy.zip 57 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A true shitpost. As I’m taking a shit, no less. Bravo.

[-] toynbee@piefed.social 20 points 2 weeks ago

In all honesty, you should probably leave it behind.

[-] Entertainmeonly 40 points 2 weeks ago

Oh nos, better ask RFK what we should do. I'm sure he will know the answer...

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

Go for a swim in a cesspool to build up your tolerance



Obviously

[-] Entertainmeonly 11 points 2 weeks ago

Hmm, thought for sure there would be some racoon dick involved but a nice swamp swim sounds about right.

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Quick everyone jump in the reflecting pool

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[-] markz@suppo.fi 11 points 2 weeks ago

Build immunity by snorting the leftover sprays from the seat.

[-] rounding_error@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago

Better load up on more horse paste…

[-] peripheralneuropathy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

5th dimension antimatter fluoride worms. I'm calling it now. That's why CERN moved the antimatter across campus to flush it into the underworld system.

[-] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

This was the worms plan all along...

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[-] Paddy_NI@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

Hasn't there been a "surge of explosive diarrhea" running the country since the 20th of January 2025?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

that's technically a bolus of explosive diarrhea

[-] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 weeks ago

Even Mother Nature is exposing the US is a shithole.

[-] cattywampas@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wouldn't this be mother nature helping the US to be a shithole? The disease is nature.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 weeks ago

At this point, the shitpost comm is going to be able to just actually focus on literal shit related stories.

reality is enshitttifying aughguhah!

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Headline hits differently if you read it while on the toilet.

[-] HertzDentalBar 5 points 2 weeks ago

Especially if you have diarrhea 🤣

[-] HertzDentalBar 16 points 2 weeks ago

Who needs a poop knife, I have diarrhea!

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's and old reference, sir, but it checks out.

[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I didn’t think “explosive diarrhea” was a real term. Not surprising though, water treatment has been failing infrastructure for many years. Flint Michigan put it in the public eye, and it’s gotten much, much worse.

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

That and decades of deregulating and vertically integrating the food supply.

[-] Sirdubdee@piefed.social 12 points 2 weeks ago

The Noah Kahan concert I incident makes more sense now.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 11 points 2 weeks ago

I've been using a water filter to filter my tap water for years, because tap water tastes nasty.

WHO'S LAUGHING NOW, BITCHES! I mean, not me because things still suck, but at least I'm reasonably sure I won't get a disease after my city reduced funding for water treatment.

[-] cattywampas@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Idk what kind of water filter you're using, but it's probably not filtering out bacteria.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's a sawyer, and both marketing materials and real world testing say otherwise. Personal experience also tells me my filter is keeping me healthy while my neighbors don't even bother listening to boil advisories.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

You might filter small quantities expensively that way, but not your bathing water.

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

water filters won't filter out bacteria or viruses. Most of them just remove chloride ions, which then encourages bacterial growth.

[-] dingus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

My tap water goes through months of smelling funny at a time where I get nervous that it is unsafe to drink. I thought about buying a filter for the tap like a Brita filter or something...but my (admittedly very minimal) research showed that these only filter out things like mineral contaminants. Bacteria and other pathogens don't seem to get filtered out by most standard filters that people are using. It's just that they filter out the hard water.

What do you use?

[-] KyuubiNoKitsune 8 points 2 weeks ago

I think the only real answer is RO and UV filtration.

RO won't remove everything, but UV will kill everything.

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[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I used to live outside of Dallas and they had an algae bloom during the summer in whatever reservoir that would make the ice maker reek of garlic for a few months a year in the summer.

[-] dingus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I suspect it is something benign but similar like that. Problem is that I really don't know that I have a way to know for sure. And anecdotally, my recurrent stomach issues significantly reduced once I stopped drinking my tap water. Mine smells like pond water tho instead of garlic lol.

No, it's not my water heater. I had it replaced and the new heater smelled the exact same even when brand new before any possible sediment accumulation.

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

A reverse osmosis system is probably your best bet. You can pour pond water in them and run lab tests with the results. Its basically distilled water though, so you want to make sure you get your minerals somewhere.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

For drinking pure water, we use a brita tap filter, and a sawyer filter straw, and just have it gravity feed into a pitcher. The pitcher usually doesn't last a full day.

For cooking, we just use the tap filter and a cheap gravity filter with a reservoir. No need to go all out when you're boiling the water lol

The Sawyer filter can be cleaned by forcing distilled water through in reverse, it unclogs the straw/membrane filter, but it only works for so long. Luckily the sawyer still works like a charm after thousands of gallons.

Disclaimer: I have not been testing for bacteria or other contaminants, I just go by taste and swap filters when something tastes off. I have no proof this filters everything, but neighbors have gotten sick around times when boil advisories go out, when we've been healthy the whole time. Could just be coincidence.

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[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Darkard@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's just Trump on a rally tour again. Explosive Diarrhea is his SS codename.

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Make America healthy again, huh.

haha

[-] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

That really is an unfortunate title.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fire in the hole

[-] Archimedes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone get inside!

[-] Saapas@piefed.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Shart in the mart wasn't a meme after all

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

norovirus? implosive diarrhea.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Can confirm had diarrhea this morning

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