Cyclospora investigation continues, cases in four states

You wash your fruts and vegetables. Wash your hands. Keep everything refrigerated. And still you get sick eating some fresh veggies. What gives?

Cyclospora. 144 cases now and counting across the upper midwest. A parasite that you can’t wash off your vegetables with water. And you can only detect with a microscope.

That doesn’t mean you should avoid your vegetables, insists Gundersen Health System infection preventionist, Megan Mellar.

She says, in general when you’re eating fresh fruit and vegetables, there are guidelines to follow.  Among those, according to Mellar:

The cases have been identified in four states, mostly in Wisconsin. The majority of all cases were tracked to Del Monte vegetable trays sold at Kwik Trip stores.

Those vegetable trays were recalled and Kwik Trip pulled them from the shelves at the beginning of June.

FDA investigators are still looking for the source of the contamination.