A TikTok Food Reviewer With 160,000 Followers Went Silent for Weeks. She’d Caught Cyclosporiasis, the Parasite Now Tied to 2 Deaths in Michigan

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A TikTok food reviewer with 160,000 followers disappeared from her feed for weeks — and the reason turned out to be a parasitic infection now linked to two deaths in Michigan.

She kept quiet with her followers because the truth was she couldn’t leave the bathroom.

Three weeks in, she’d dropped 17 pounds and started testing positive for cyclosporiasis, the same parasite now tied to two deaths in Michigan.

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