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[–] 161 points 3 months ago (7 children)

"Cyclosporiasis is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated by feces containing the parasite. Historically, people would acquire it outside the United States.

However, of the 190 cases reported to public health authorities between the start of May and the middle of June, 145 involve someone who hasn't traveled beyond US borders in the last couple of weeks."

Just say it, the US is a shithole country now so of course we are starting to get awful diseases locally.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Does this have anything to do with how we deregulated all the food production and gutted the FDA and replaced everyone there with lobbiests from the companies that produce food? Or something like that?

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  • [–] 60 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    A true shitpost. As I’m taking a shit, no less. Bravo.

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  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    Oh nos, better ask RFK what we should do. I'm sure he will know the answer...

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Go for a swim in a cesspool to build up your tolerance



    Obviously

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Better load up on more horse paste…

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    [–] 24 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Even Mother Nature is exposing the US is a shithole.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Hasn't there been a "surge of explosive diarrhea" running the country since the 20th of January 2025?

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago

    At this point, the shitpost comm is going to be able to just actually focus on literal shit related stories.

    reality is enshitttifying aughguhah!

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Headline hits differently if you read it while on the toilet.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Who needs a poop knife, I have diarrhea!

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    I didn’t think “explosive diarrhea” was a real term. Not surprising though, water treatment has been failing infrastructure for many years. Flint Michigan put it in the public eye, and it’s gotten much, much worse.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    The Noah Kahan concert I incident makes more sense now.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    My tap water goes through months of smelling funny at a time where I get nervous that it is unsafe to drink. I thought about buying a filter for the tap like a Brita filter or something...but my (admittedly very minimal) research showed that these only filter out things like mineral contaminants. Bacteria and other pathogens don't seem to get filtered out by most standard filters that people are using. It's just that they filter out the hard water.

    What do you use?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not Chief O'Brien but I use a reverse-osmosis water filter installed under the sink, that has its own drinking water tap. It has 6 or 7 stages of filters and a pressurized tank to hold a few gallons of filtered water. And it does remove bacteria, chlorine, fluoride, lead, and pretty much everything but water. I installed it about 10 years ago and it was a fantastic investment. It cost under $200 if I recall, and the yearly cost for filters is about $50 to $100 to have unlimited pure water. Filters must be replaced every 6-12 months, except for some like the RO membrane that lasts 2-3 years.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I used to live outside of Dallas and they had an algae bloom during the summer in whatever reservoir that would make the ice maker reek of garlic for a few months a year in the summer.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I suspect it is something benign but similar like that. Problem is that I really don't know that I have a way to know for sure. And anecdotally, my recurrent stomach issues significantly reduced once I stopped drinking my tap water. Mine smells like pond water tho instead of garlic lol.

    No, it's not my water heater. I had it replaced and the new heater smelled the exact same even when brand new before any possible sediment accumulation.

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    [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    It's just Trump on a rally tour again. Explosive Diarrhea is his SS codename.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Make America healthy again, huh.

    haha

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    That really is an unfortunate title.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    Fire in the hole

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Huh... I thought that was just people setting off fireworks early.

    Edit: So immediately after posting this comment, I got a text from my apartment management about not setting off fireworks in the complex. Spooky.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Everyone get inside!

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