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Nurses chase Cyclospora using grocery receipts, food apps and detailed interviews

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Public health nurses have been pulled from other duties in Washtenaw County, MI, to call hundreds of people sick with cyclosporiasis, and try to help them remember everything they ate in recent days.

Linda Kim, a nurse at the Washtenaw County Health Department in Michigan, has been helping to investigate more than 900 cases of cyclosporiasis locally. Foodborne illnesses are some of the most complex public health investigations, especially with the <em>Cyclospora</em> parasite. That
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Public health nurses have been pulled from other duties in Washtenaw County, MI, to call hundreds of people sick with cyclosporiasis, and try to help them remember everything they ate in recent days.

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