Deadly turn in historic parasite outbreak as Michigan reports first U.S. deaths

So we see cyclosporosis cases pop up every single year, right? And we tend to be able to localize where they came from. This one is very large and it took a really long time to try to localize where the source was. And in that time, people were maybe being a little bit more cautious, but they weren't really sure what to be cautious of. So we're seeing a lot of cases. It's about 22,000 cases right now and probably climbing. And unfortunately, when you have that many people with infectious diarrhea, there's going to be a cohort of those people who have underlying medical conditions who are going to succumb to the basically the dehydration, like taxing their system and making it really difficult for them to survive. It can cause end organ damage. And as a result, they can become very, very, very ill and even pass away. So this is really unfortunate that it's happening, but it's not so much the infection itself that is causing the demise. It's the fact that their bodies aren't able to handle the dehydration that results from the infection. No, I'm not surprised when you have about 22,000 cases that there are going to be some deaths. It's really unfortunate because this very much feels like it was preventable. And it's an infectious parasite that was spread through human error potentially. And so we're just really frustrated with the whole situation as a healthcare community.