date:Jul 22, 2013
he Guatemalan raspberries had been consumed before anyone got sick.
What they did not know at the time was that cyclospora was endemic in Guatemala.
A couple years later, fieldwork by CDCs Center for Infectious Diseases found conditions in the Latin American countrys raspberry-growing area were more than ripe for the parasite.
The CDC team conducted a study at health care facilities and among raspberry farm workers.
From April 6, 1997 to March 19, 1998, 126 (2.3 percent) of 5,552 surveillanc