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How Trump admin cuts have compromised food safety - CBS News

How Trump admin cuts have compromised food safety - CBS News

Since May, more than 11,000 cases of illness caused by the parasite cyclospora have been reported in 41 states. This comes after the Trump administration drastically cut FDA and CDC staff, prompting one expert to call this summer's outbreaks "a national wake-โ€ฆ

A tiny microbe has been making a lot of Americans sick. Really sick. Just ask Jessica Mallard. "I wasn't feeling well. The pain in my stomach was, like, unbearable," she said. The parasite is calledโ€ฆ [+5670 chars]

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