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What to know about cyclosporiasis, the intestinal illness...

A surge of cases of the intestinal illness that causes diarrhea and fatigue has been detected in 34 states. Here's how what to do if you suspect you have it and how to avoid infection.

Salads are under attack after people have gotten sick from eating lettuce, cilantro & other vegetables.

Some fruit like raspberries may be compromised too.

The crazy & nasty aspect of the cyclosporiasis parasite is that it comes from human feces.

People are either sh8tting on the crops &/or contaminating the water supply. Disgusting.

The easiest thing to do is avoid veggies & fruit until USDA or whoever gets their arms around the problem. Washing veggies & fruit & high heat (cooking) might help.

@Pioneer1 ...don't know your go to meals but Michigan supposedly has a high number of cases. If you or your family members, friends & associates have a fit of diarrhea...cyclosporiasis might be the culprit. 😁

Otherwise, to.everyone reading the forum consider this a public service announcement (PSA) to be careful with lettuce & salads.😎

I wonder if these folks wash their raw fruits and vegetables One thing I will do, no matter where I get my food from, is wash the produce. Case-in-Point, the family went to get some dishes from Chipotle. Mine a had a lot of lettuce, grape tomatoes, and some other produce.. Well, I spent about an hour separating the produce from the entree, washing the lettuces, and then pan frying the tomatoes. Fruits that don't have their own packaging (peels) definitely need to be rinsed, and a lot!

Thank you for the PSA, Brotha @ProfD

1 hour ago, Mel Hopkins said:

I wonder if these folks wash their raw fruits and vegetables...

Harder to do especially when eating in a restaurant or buying fast food.😁

Places like Taco Bell are messed up right now.🤣

1 hour ago, Mel Hopkins said:

Case-in-Point, the family went to get some dishes from Chipotle.

Thankfully, at least around these parts, Chipotle places the lettuce on the bowl last.

If needed, another option is to ask for the produce on the side. That makes it easier to sanitize as well.

1 hour ago, Mel Hopkins said:

Thank you for the PSA, Brotha @ProfD

Most welcome sista @Mel Hopkins . We have to remain vigilant on so many levels.

D8mn shame if they don't have a few Port-A-Pottys out in the farm fields.

That way, employees won't be dumping & adding their own fertilizer to the crops.🤣😎

ProfD

It's funny that you mentioned Chipotle, because I haven't been there for years but since I'm on vacation now I've been TEARING UP some Chipotle for the past few days...lol.

I'm enjoying that spicy honey chicken they serve now...lol.

I'm not sure what's happening with the vegetables but I know those kids back there fixing the order aren't practicing the most sanitary habits.

I don't know how many times I've had to get at those skinny White girls with yoga pants on and phones jammed into the pubic hair, to NOT fix our food with the same gloves they just got through clearing all of the trash and smudge off the counter-top with!!!!

DON'T DO THAT.

Next thing they'll looking at me all juicy eyed and start getting apologetic.

Sorry young lady..didn't mean to raise my voice at you but DON'T DO THAT.......lol.

I'm not in Michigan right now but I guess whatever it is that has been going around has spread to different states.

As you've suggested, this mess usually comes from these farm laborers shitting out in the fields and not properly washing their hands.

This is yet another problem when you get too much mass migration and let so many illegal immigrant in here by the millions.

But then again, the government may have released something also.

Who knows?

Do you know who I really blame for this? Black America.

We've been here long enough that we should have our own doctors, hospitals and scientist on the case to INTERCEPT shit like this and prevent it from spreading or happening in the first place.
We are supposed to be the moral guidance of this nation, so what happens is what WE allow to happen through out indifference.

31 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

I'm not sure what's happening with the vegetables but I know those kids back there fixing the order aren't practicing the most sanitary habits.

...to NOT fix our food with the same gloves they just got through clearing all of the trash and smudge off the counter-top with!!!!

DON'T DO THAT.

Right. D8mn shame having to remind them of that. I blame the managers for not doing a better job of enforcing food safety rules.

31 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Do you know who I really blame for this? Black America.

We've been here long enough that we should have our own doctors, hospitals and scientist on the case to INTERCEPT shit like this and prevent it from spreading or happening in the first place.
We are supposed to be the moral guidance of this nation, so what happens is what WE allow to happen through out indifference.

Black America does not own the farms & corporations that produce food in the USA.

If Black America had its own farms & grocery stores & restaurants, etc., we would have more control over the process.

Black America cannot snatch those money-making industries from white folks. 😎

ProfD

I blame the managers for not doing a better job of enforcing food safety rules

The managers are often times the biggest culprits...lol.

They often times get so busy and frustrated trying to do several things at once that they say "fuck the rules" and do whatever needs to be done however they can do it....even if it's not safe.

But then again, if the MANAGER of the place is a 20 year old kid with tattoos all over his neck, chest, and up and down his arm and a ring in his nose....you really shouldn't expect the most sterile dining environment anyway, lol.

Black America does not own the farms & corporations that produce food in the USA.

We used to.

The Nation of Islam used to....and still does to a certain degree....have acres and acres of farm land where they not only grew their own food but had enough to sell and distribute to the rest of Black America.

One of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad's sons took over and sold many if not most of the businesses and even dismantled the military structure of the NOI and made sure these businesses were managed effectively.

If Black America had its own farms & grocery stores & restaurants, etc., we would

-sell them again?

Because we DID have our own farms, grocery stores, and restaurants.....in far larger numbers than we have today.
But after so-called Integration a lot of our people became lazy and decided to let White folks do for us what we should have been doing for ourselves.

59 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

The managers are often times the biggest culprits...lol.

Yep. Once I see the manager, I already have an idea of how the place is being run top to bottom; food safety to customer service. 😁

59 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Black America does not own the farms & corporations that produce food in the USA.

The Nation of Islam used to....

If Black America had its own farms & grocery stores & restaurants, etc., we would

-sell them again?

Because we DID have our own farms,

Right.

There are still Black farmers but nearly enough to sustain our population.

Nor do we have a chain of Black-owned grocery stores & a system of ancillary businesses feeding into it.

59 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

But after so-called Integration a lot of our people became lazy and decided to let White folks do for us what we should have been doing for ourselves.

Integration pulled Black folks into white-owned businesses & workplaces to the detriment of maintaining our own institutions.

Becoming consumers more than producers is a tough situation to course correct.😎

Well enjoy your vacation @Pioneer1

On 7/16/2026 at 9:02 AM, Troy said:

Well enjoy your vacation @Pioneer1

It was well deserved....lol.

On the plane trip, I got a chance to briefly see a few spots in America I hadn't really seen before....like the Denver Metropolitan airport.

We had a 3 hour lay over in Denver so I decided to roam around and check the place out.

That place was HUGE.

To me, it looked bigger than LAX, JFK, or O'hare.

And so many beautiful women of different ages and of nearly every ethnicity on the planet it seemed.
Talk about African women....lol....from EVERY tribe.

Tall jet black Sudanese women walking around...in high heels.
Silky haired Ethiopian and Somali women walking around giggling.
South African Zulu women walking around eating pretzels and cheese and shit...lol.
Some of them were fliers.
Some of them were airline attendants.

Restaurants with nearly every cuisine on the planet.

If I were in my 20s I would have probably relocated there just to work in the airport....lol.

@Pioneer1 unlike the airport, Denver is a very white city the Black population is in the single-digit percentage, but it feels lower. Still the only Black-owned bookstore in the mountain time zone is usually in Denver. Denver is a liberal leaning city.

I actually stayed in Denver a LONG time ago.....over 20 years ago.

It was only for a day or 2.
I didn't stay long enough to make any type of real judgement about it other than there was a lot of Latinos and Los Angeles transplants.
I remember seeing quite a few Black people when I was in Denver.
Nothing like Atlanta or St. Louis....lol...but some.
What stood out to me though was that most of the Black people I talked to there were from Los Angeles.

What turned me off about the city was the weather.
I do remember it was in the summer time when I drove through there, and even then there was a cold wind that blew through the mile-high city.
I said if it was THAT cold in the Summer....it had to be polar in the Winter.

1 hour ago, Pioneer1 said:

What turned me off about the city was the weather.
I do remember it was in the summer time when I drove through there, and even then there was a cold wind that blew through the mile-high city.
I said if it was THAT cold in the Summer....it had to be polar in the Winter.

Two reasons I haven't made it my bizness to visit Denver...1) not enough Black folks & 2) weather.

Doesn't matter how much the sun shines when it's cold as witch tits.🤣😎

I don't know too much about the city, but that airport was something else!

Black people were only a fraction of the population at the airport, but there were SO MANY people in that airport that even that fraction looked like THOUSANDS to me.

I'm talking about Black people of all types.

Some of them with jheri curls....
Others with nappy beaded hair....
Some tall, skinny, and jet black.....
Others short, stocky, and honey brown.....
Some with turbans on their heads....
Some with a face full of henna tattoos
Others with a face full of prison tattoos...lol.

200 different types of niggaz speaking 200 different languages when you walk by them....lol.

Now, I can see this where I live also....during a prolonged period of time.
But not nearly as many in such a short time span; all packed together grinning and looking at eachother funny....lol.

19 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

I'm talking about Black people of all types.

200 different types of niggaz speaking 200 different languages when you walk by them....lol.

I didn't see Bigen hair-dyed tight-outlined n8gglets listed.🤣😎

39 minutes ago, ProfD said:

I didn't see Bigen hair-dyed tight-outlined n8gglets listed.🤣😎

That's because they're getting better at their cosplay.....lol.

Drag queens used to LOOK like drag queens, now you can't tell the difference when they're walking around out on the streets.

They done lost the squareness of their jaws, the bass in their voices......arms are soft and jiggly.
Some of them even put water balloons or something in the seat of their pants to make them cheeks bounce when they walk.

You can't tell them from real women UNTIL it's time to get down with the "git down"...lol.

One brutha sat across from us with some smooth lotioned up arms, some sort of texturized hair tapered with lace fronts, smelling like cocobutter!

I'm not gonna lie...I was IMPRESSED with the time and effort the nigga put in, lol.

When I saw the nigga I started thinking of LL Cool J's lyrics:

"Baby hair pumpin'
lip gloss a shinin' "

15 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

That's because they're getting better at their cosplay.....lol.

Maybe so. I still see dye running done n8gglet faces especially when it's hot outside.🤣

When it comes to older dudes, just rock the salt & pepper or gray hair & cut that sh8t low or bald.

Holding on to hair with paint, er, dye, is dumb...unintelligent. 😁

15 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

You can't tell them from real women UNTIL it's time to get down with the "git down"...lol.

Ask questions straight up & do a body search well before the git down. No confusion.

15 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

One brutha sat across from us with some smooth lotioned up arms, some sort of texturized hair tapered with lace fronts, smelling like cocobutter!

I see similar n8gglets as waiters & hosts in restaurants & food places. It's always Black dudes.🙄

Every now & then, you'll see a white dude who forgot to take off his nail polish from the previous night.🤣

15 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

I'm not gonna lie...I was IMPRESSED with the time and effort the nigga put in, lol.

I'm impressed those n8gglets took the time to get a job in order to provide for themselves instead of living off others.

15 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

When I saw the nigga I started thinking of LL Cool J's lyrics:

"Baby hair pumpin'
lip gloss a shinin' "

Around the way girl, er, n8gglet.🤣😎

ProfD

Maybe so. I still see dye running done n8gglet faces especially when it's hot outside.🤣
When it comes to older dudes, just rock the salt & pepper or gray hair & cut that sh8t low or bald.
Holding on to hair with paint, er, dye, is dumb...unintelligent

People want to maintain their youth...lol.
No matter how much people tell you grey hair looks good or looks good on you, you don't believe them deep down.
You'd rather your hair and hairline look like it did at 30 rather than 60.
Which usually means a head full of bushy black hair...lol.

Ask questions straight up & do a body search well before the git down. No confusion.

Ain't too many REAL women are going to let you do a lot of cavity searching like that, let alone a nigga trying to PASS for one...lol.






I see similar n8gglets as waiters & hosts in restaurants & food places. It's always Black dudes.🙄
Every now & then, you'll see a white dude who forgot to take off his nail polish from the previous night.🤣

I've been noticing that for decades.
A White man could be gay as hell, but you wouldn't even know it. He's acting macho, talking macho, and might even have a wife and kids to cover up his alternative lifestyle.

A gay Black man has to tell the WHOLE WORLD how sissified he is.
Gotta run around with his hair dyed pink on one side and green on the other, halter tops with his hairy belly out, bending over and twerking every 5 minutes....and don't let him open his mouth and say something, lol.

I'm convinced it's a psychological mechanism geared towards showing society how harmless and non-threatening he is.

I also believe that many of these dudes were somehow affected as children by the comical images of flaming sissies they saw growing up.
Remember Men on Film from In Living Color?

You never know how a man dressing up like a woman...such as Eddie or Martin or even Flip Wilson....may hit a trigger and influences some boy watching that to want to grow up and BE that.






I'm impressed those n8gglets took the time to get a job in order to provide for themselves instead of living off others.

I've never seen a lazy gay man, lol.
Gay dudestend to have money and connections.
Some more than others....but never flat busted and on the street.

21 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

People want to maintain their youth...lol.
No matter how much people tell you grey hair looks good or looks good on you, you don't believe them deep down.
You'd rather your hair and hairline look like it did at 30 rather than 60.

Yeah. It is ridiculous. Thankfully, there are still brutally honest people like myself telling the truth.

I have zero problems with saying...let that BS go to a brotha or sista. Don't look like a clown.

21 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Ain't too many REAL women are going to let you do a lot of cavity searching like that, let alone a nigga trying to PASS for one...lol.

Real women have a way of letting a man know there is nothing fake about them well before git down time. 😉

21 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

A gay Black man has to tell the WHOLE WORLD how sissified he is.

I'm convinced it's a psychological mechanism geared towards showing society how harmless and non-threatening he is.

In general, some Black folks tend to be loud & over-the-top in whatever they do. It's like they're screaming look at me.

On the flip side, Black folks do bring the flavor & flair that makes life less dull & boring. We make it pop.😎

ProfD

Yeah. It is ridiculous. Thankfully, there are still brutally honest people like myself telling the truth.

I have zero problems with saying...let that BS go to a brotha or sista. Don't look like a clown.

Looking "young" is a WHOLISTIC image that isn't JUST about hair....or the lack of it, lol.

No sense in dying your grey hair black again if your skin makes you look like a walking beef jerky stick.

Just like it's not wise or profitable to take Viagra....with a fucked up heart, lol.

Not only is his dick hard...his WHOLE BODY is.

The ideal is for the more natural "gracefully aging" look.

Real women have a way of letting a man know there is nothing fake about them well before git down time.

Yeah.

It's called excusing herself to go to the bathroom so she can pass the sniff test, lol.
....and take out whatever synthetic products need to be taken out, lol.

On the flip side, Black folks do bring the flavor & flair that makes life less dull & boring. We make it pop.

Well, if it's one thing a flaming sissy knows how to do....it's make it "pop", lol.

When AIDS first came out there were reports that it may have been in the drugs that gay men took.

I didn't know gay men took drugs for their lifestyle so I did a brief little research and found out that they take things called "poppers".

Without doing ANY research on it...lol...take a lucky guess of what "poppers" allegedly do for gay men. 🤣

39 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Looking "young" is a WHOLISTIC image that isn't JUST about hair....or the lack of it, lol.

No sense in dying your grey hair black again if your skin makes you look like a walking beef jerky stick.

That's the truth they need to hear.

The package is incomplete if dude has a head of black hair & a mouth with no teeth in it.

A woman needs to stop it with her baby hair slicked down & her azz looks like a bag of mashed potatoes in those cheap spandex leggings. Azz got more dents in it than a car left in a hail storm.

Old n8gglets need to cut out the dumb sh8t. They ain't young no more & never will be, next stop is the cemetery.🤣😎