America Has Explosive Diarrhea. Is Donald Trump to Blame?

Politics By Mary Harris Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. Sign in or create an account to better manage your email preferences. Unsubscribe from email alerts Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from email alerts for Mary Harris? July 17, 202610:00 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by CDC. Nick Florko doesn’t want to brag or anything, but more than a year ago he wrote an article that has come to seem prescient. Its title: “Now Is Not the Time to Eat Bagged Lettuce.” Florko, a staff writer at the Atlantic, made that pronouncement long before the multistate outbreak of Cyclospora cayetanensis, a parasite that is associated with explosive diarrhea and has spread across 34 states and counting. Back then, he was focused on leafy greens because they’re the most common cause