Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
I’m sharing my story because I believe we all deserve access to clean water and clean food. Perhaps by sharing my painful experience with this summer’s enemy parasite No. 1, I can play some small part to improve the administration of public health nationwide.
— Chase Strangio, the first-ever openly transgender attorney to argue before the Supreme Court, in comments concerning his unfortunate brush with cyclosporiasis. Strangio details his bout with the explosive diarrhea bug in an as-told-to-essay featured in Business Insider. “I cook everything now. It is definitely a change,” he said. “I will not be eating that salad out in the New York City streets. Absolutely not. I am a new evangelist for food safety regulation.”
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