07/15/2026
These republicans are not concerned with our health.
“Last summer, the C.D.C. quietly scaled back the country’s most comprehensive system for tracking food-borne illness outbreaks — called the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, or FoodNet — which meant that none of the 10 states within the network were required to test for and report cyclospora infections back to the C.D.C.”
The parasite, which has sickened thousands across the U.S., is notoriously difficult to track. Funding cuts haven’t made the job easier.
