Weeks into explosive diarrhea outbreak, sluggish CDC plans response team
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美国多地暴发环孢子虫感染疫情，已波及47个州，致近2.3万人患病，两人死亡，超500人住院。特朗普政府应对迟缓，CDC和FDA的公开疫情页面至今未更新相关信息，仅由州级机构报告新增病例。卫生与公众服务部表示信息将于本周更新，CDC计划组建正式应对团队。疫情自6月开始，公众对食用新鲜蔬果的风险仍缺乏明确指引。
The Trump administration continues to respond sluggishly to the explosive, nationwide outbreak of Cyclospora—a unicellular parasite spread from human feces that has now sickened nearly 23,000 people in 47 states, killing two and sending over 500 to the hospital.
Michigan health officials reported the two deaths Monday, and The Washington Post first reported Tuesday that federal health officials have expanded a list of states with linked cases from nine to 15. But those updates still have not appeared on public outbreak pages for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Food and Drug Administration, and Americans are struggling to understand the risk of eating fresh fruits and vegetables.
In comments to Ars Technica on Monday, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees CDC and FDA, said the outbreak information will be updated sometime "this week." Sources for The New York Times said that the CDC plans to set up a "formal response team" for the outbreak sometime this week. Cases in the outbreak began in June.
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