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Our health writers explore wellness culture, human behavior, mortality and disease, and other mysteries of the body and the mind.

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Cyclosporiasis Is Solved! Right?

The federal government announced that iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell was to blame for the outbreak. But it still hasn’t answered some crucial questions.

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America’s Homegrown-Parasite Problem

Scientists don’t know why cyclosporiasis, a tropical diarrheal disease, is spreading more and more from domestic sources.