A dangerous parasitic pathogen responsible for severe gastrointestinal illness has become increasingly difficult to track across the United States following the elimination of its surveillance protocol from federal health monitoring systems. Public health officials express growing concerns that the actual prevalence of this foodborne infection may significantly exceed reported cases, as laboratory testing and case reporting mechanisms have been substantially weakened, potentially allowing outbreaks to spread undetected.

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