Sue, My mother sent me an article out of the Houston TX paper (I'm in
Ohio) about this connection. Evidently there have been 27 confirmed and
37 suspect cases of cyclospora infection and strawberries are the single
common factor in all the cases. The parasite is thought to be on the
outside and inside of the fruit, thus washing is ineffective. The
article goes on to say that the Texas health dept. there are no
standardized lab tests to look for the parasite in food, so no
parasite-bearing strawberries have been found. There is just a very
strong link with two large groups of people who attended dinners at two
diferent restaurants and all ate strawberries.
Phyllis, Sinclair Comm. College, Dayton Ohio
