Doctor weighs in on parasitic infection outbreak; people encouraged to buy local produce

Freedom Farms, a farmer’s market on Route 8, has seen more customers coming through the doors over the last few weeks.

“We’ve had a lot of people with questions about whether we use things on our food and where everything comes from,” said Jessica Hoffman of Freedom Farms.

Those questions come as a nationwide outbreak of a parasitic infection called Cyclospora, or cyclosporiasis, has affected thousands of people across the nation…

Story continues

TRENDING NOW

LATEST LOCAL NEWS