“America appears to be in the midst of an outbreak of — I’m sorry, but there’s no better way to say this — explosive diarrhea.”
That was not the first sentence of Nicholas Florko’s July 11, 2026, reportage in The Atlantic. But perhaps should have been.
The article is titled “America’s Home-grown Parasite Problem.”
And no, it is not about the politics of the transfer state. You may have heard that The Atlantic has lately been turning away from its decade-long bout of woke diarrhea, but analysis of parasitism and subversion in a sociological sense — say, along the lines of Herbert Spencer, Franz Oppenheimer, or Stanislav Andreski — is too much to hope for.
The article is about something more, uh, down-to-earth: the parasite known as Cyclospora cayetanensis. Which can cause an illness, cyclosporiasis. It is all gruesome stuff, and can be read about in The Atlantic.