confirmed cyclosporiasis<\/a>\u00a0infection were admitted to hospitals across 41 states, with no deaths reported so far.<\/p>\nRecommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n
Symptoms of cyclosporiasis usually appear a week after exposure to the Cyclospora cayetanensis parasite from eating contaminated food or drinking contaminated water, and include frequent diarrhoea that can last for weeks.<\/p>\n
The CDC also cautioned that 7,400 people with suspected infection were under review and the total was likely to rise. Many cases have been linked to lettuce produce.<\/p>\n
On July 17, US firm Taylor Farms issued a recall for iceberg lettuce grown in Mexico and exported to US shops and restaurants after US investigators pointed to Mexican facilities as a likely source for the outbreak.<\/p>\n
However, Mexican Secretary of Health David Kershenobich disputed the findings, stating on Tuesday that there was no evidence the outbreak began in the central state of Guanajuato, where authorities are investigating.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo far, no evidence has been found to indicate that it originated there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The US Food and Drug Administration has issued conflicting information on the source of the outbreak.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the agency said a sample of Mexican lettuce from Taylor Farms had tested positive for the parasite, only to \u2060announce on Sunday that the result was a false positive following a re-review of the data.<\/p>\n
The agency then came out on \u2060Monday to say that its supply chain investigation continues to \u2060point to the company\u2019s Mexican facilities as the source of the parasite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US officials claim evidence points to lettuce grown in Mexico, which Mexico\u2019s Health Ministry disputes. By Reuters and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3878,49,48,2998,84,28461,799,1072,44,772,1690],"class_list":["post-817769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-agriculture","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-food","tag-health","tag-investigation","tag-latin-america","tag-mexico","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}