Patricia Mikula, PharmD, is an inpatient clinical pharmacist for medical/surgical patients and patients in the intensive care unit. Multivitamins often contain concentrated forms of some ingredients ...

Health officials are scrambling to identify the cause of the outbreak, which has sickened at least 145 people Getty At least 145 people across 17 states have been sickened by a Cyclospora outbreak, ...

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You may want to be extra cautious with your fresh fruit and veggie platter this holiday weekend: An explosive diarrhea-causing parasite is behind a surge of summer food poisoning cases right before ...

The CDC is working to figure out what's behind a certain parasitic infection whose biggest symptom is "explosive" diarrhea. Cyclosporiasis is causing illness in thousands of people across 34 states so ...

Cyclosporiasis, a nasty parasitic infection that causes bouts of “explosive” watery diarrhea, has sickened hundreds of people in Michigan and other parts of the United States. Cases of the ...

Beware, Kentuckiana. A parasite causing "explosive diarrhea" across the country is on the rise in the region. Cases of cyclosporiasis have been rising in several states, and according to Norton ...

A nationwide outbreak of the intestinal parasite cyclosporiasis has spread to Ohio. The parasite is spread by consuming food or water contaminated with feces, with U.S. outbreaks often linked to fresh ...

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Cases of food poisoning stemming from a parasite that causes explosive diarrhea are continuing to spread across the United States, topping 700 in Michigan the week after July Fourth. Cyclosporiasis, a ...

Nearly 1,000 people in Michigan have been diagnosed with a parasitic infection that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea, making it the largest such outbreak in state history and one of the nation's ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — There’s a mysterious outbreak of a diarrhea-related parasite happening in the U.S. right now, and New York is being hit by it the hardest. The Centers for Disease Control and ...