{"id":528372,"date":"2026-07-06T19:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/528372\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:49:08","slug":"cdc-warns-of-explosive-diarrhea-parasite-how-to-protect-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/528372\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Warns of \u2018Explosive Diarrhea Parasite.\u2019 How To Protect Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the main symptom of the infection is watery and often explosive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/diarrhea\" class=\"content-link css-kxhged\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">diarrhea<\/a>, other symptoms may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S1473309918307898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"content-link css-kxhged\">include<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe illness, untreated, can last for weeks, often in an on-and-off pattern. The major hazard is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/dehydration\" class=\"content-link css-kxhged\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dehydration<\/a>, which can cause problems for patients at the extremes of age, those with chronic medical conditions, and persons who are immunocompromised,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vumc.org\/health-policy\/person\/william-schaffner-md\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"content-link css-kxhged\">William Schaffner<\/a>, MD, professor of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University, told Healthline. <\/p>\n<p>Treatment for cyclosporiasis typically includes a selection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthline.com\/health\/how-do-antibiotics-work\" class=\"content-link css-kxhged\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">antibiotics<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the main symptom of the infection is watery and often explosive diarrhea, other symptoms may include: \u201cThe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[241382,13582,163,85,46],"class_list":["post-528372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-cyclosporiasis","tag-diarrhea","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}