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A foodborne illness outbreak has spread across nine states and is linked to contaminated lettuce. Health officials are warning consumers to avoid affected products.
A foodborne illness outbreak has spread across nine states and is linked to contaminated lettuce. Health officials are warning consumers to avoid affected products. The expansion across state lines indicates a distributed supply chain problem rather than a localized incident.
Cyclosporiasis causes severe gastrointestinal illness and can take weeks to resolve. When produce from one source spreads across multiple states, it usually means the contamination happened at a processing or distribution facility, not at the farm. The warning is necessary, but it also suggests the contaminated product may already be in stores or in people's homes across a wide area.
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