Different Cyclospora Numbers Are All Correct: 33,548, 19,595 and 12,883. Here Is What Each One Counts, Why 6,712 People Are Attributed to Nothing, and Why the Real Number Is Closer to 1,600,000.

Different Cyclospora Numbers Are All Correct: 33,548, 19,595 and 12,883. Here Is What Each One Counts, Why 6,712 People Are Attributed to Nothing, and Why the Real Number Is Closer to 1,600,000.

Cyclosporiasis is the intestinal illness caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis, a parasite that reaches produce when human waste reaches a field or the water running through it. This summer it caused the largest outbreak of its kind in American history. Depending on...