Dozens of hikers fall ill on California's Pacific Crest Trail

Dozens of hikers have fallen ill on the trail, causing acute health impacts and potential disruption to their hiking plans.

In the waning days of May, dozens of hikers along California's stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail found their bodies betraying them far from the comforts of civilization, struck by an illness swift and clustered enough to alarm public health officials. The outbreak speaks to a tension as old as wilderness travel itself: the same wild water and open terrain that draw people outward also carry invisible hazards that no filter can fully guarantee against. Health authorities now face the urgent work of naming the cause — bacterial, viral, or parasitic — before the trail's busy season carries the h

Dozens of hikers fall ill on California's Pacific Crest Trail

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