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wash your vegetables and move on with your life.
> Preventing Cyclospora can be challenging because the foods most commonly associated with outbreaks can be difficult to completely decontaminate, even after thorough washing. [0]

Thoroughly cooking your lettuce is the only way to reliably decontaminate in this case.

https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/cyclospora-the-tin...

Wait were does irrigation water come from in the US? They don't use tap water?
It’s typically sourced from natural/artificial surface bodies or pumped out of the ground.
Treated waste water is very commonly used as well. Just not normally for vegetables intended to be consumed fresh. Its mostly used to grow animal feed and non-food agricultural products.
> the correct solution is separating sewage from irrigation water.

This sounds a bit too advanced for the nation that came up with the atom bomb and the first man on the moon and the transistor.