密歇根州参议员候选人阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德（民主党）周日告诉记者，如果当选进入参议院，他希望推动一项与2026年环孢子虫疫情相关的法案：“去屎生菜法案”。
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) told reporters that if he was elected to the upper chamber, he wanted to pass an act related to 2026’s cyclospora outbreak: The Sh-- Lettuce Elimination Act.
“在密歇根州，整个夏天都有很多人吃了生菜，然后，你知道，他们吃了屎生菜。美国不应该有屎生菜，”他说。
“For a long time here in Michigan, right, over the summer, there were a lot of people who ate lettuce and then had, you know, they ate the sh-- lettuce. And we shouldn't have sh-- lettuce in the United States of America,” he said on Sunday.
这项法案是这位民主党人持续的一个玩笑，他在9月的一次竞选活动中曾提到过，但这与他竞选的公共卫生优先事项有关。
The act is an ongoing joke from the Democrat who previously mentioned it during a campaign event in September but is related to his campaign’s public health priorities.
“我们必须重建食品药品监督管理局（FDA）中确保人们吃的生菜没有被别人拉过屎的那部分，”埃尔-赛义德继续说道。“我们还需要确保疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）能够统计屎生菜的病例数。这是一个干净的法案。”
“We have to rebuild the part of the FDA that makes sure that people are eating lettuce where other people have not shat,” El-Sayed continued. “And we need to make sure that the CDC can count the number of cases of sh-- lettuce. It's a clean bill.”
埃尔-赛义德指的是美国历史上最大规模的环孢子虫疫情之一。根据疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）的数据，美国报告了超过12,000例病例，570人住院治疗。该疫情最终被追溯到来自墨西哥泰勒农场的冰山生菜，该产品已被召回。根据CDC的说法，这种食源性疾病会导致水样腹泻，“伴有频繁且有时呈爆发性的排便”。
El-Sayed was referring to one of the country’s largest outbreaks of cyclospora in history. It saw over 12,000 reported cases in the U.S. with 570 hospitalizations, per the Center for Disease Control (CDC). It was eventually linked to iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico that has since been recalled. The foodborne illness causes watery diarrhea “with frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements,” according to the CDC.
密歇根州记录了超过5,000例病例，以及该疫情导致的2例死亡。卫生官员在9月宣布疫情结束，这标志着美国最大规模的环孢子虫疫情告一段落。
Over 5,000 cases and the outbreak’s 2 deaths were recorded in Michigan. Health officials reported an end to the outbreak in September which marked the country’s largest outbreak of cyclospora.
在周一的新闻发布会上，埃尔-赛义德表示，他在参议院的首要任务是阻止对医疗补助（Medicaid）的削减。他还主张全民医保，并为此写过一本书。
At the Monday press conference, El-Sayed said his first priority in the Senate was to block cuts to Medicaid. He is also advocating for Medicare-for-all, a topic he authored a book on.
这位民主党人将在关键的参议院选举中对决前众议员迈克·罗杰斯（共和党-密歇根州），该选举可能决定参议院的多数党归属。
The Democrat faces off against former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) in a battleground Senate election that could decide the majority in the upper chamber.