{"id":567514,"date":"2026-07-30T20:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/567514\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:45:08","slug":"cyclospora-infections-increasing-in-2-us-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/567514\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclospora infections increasing in 2 US outbreaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The number of cases in the Cyclospora outbreak that\u2019s unrelated to the massive nine-state lettuce-related cluster has increased from 72 to 93, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)\u00a0shared<\/a> yesterday. A trace-back investigation is ongoing to uncover the source of Cyclospora, a parasite that causes the diarrheal illness known as cyclosporiasis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Few details are known about the latest outbreak of Cyclospora, but some experts have noticed a\u00a0growing number of cases<\/a> in North Carolina and other southern states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c[This] may well represent the second outbreak that\u2019s not associated with the lettuce,\u201d Craig Hedberg, PhD, professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Minnesota\u2019s School of Public Health, told CIDRAP News.<\/p>\n

Confirmed domestically acquired cases top 6,700 nationwide<\/p>\n

Cases are still being added to the huge outbreak affecting people in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Interviews with people sickened with cyclosporiasis indicate that many in those states ate at a Taco Bell restaurant and ate lettuce distributed by Taylor Farms de Mexico. That lettuce has since been\u00a0recalled<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Michigan, which has the most cases by far in the nine-state outbreak, reported 10,386 cases, with 193 people hospitalized as of today, says the\u00a0Michigan Department of Health and Human Services<\/a>. There are 2,926 cases in Northwest Ohio, with 1,194 cases in Lucas County, per the\u00a0Toledo Lucas County Health Department<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDD)\u00a0reports<\/a> 6,707 domestically acquired, lab-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis, and an additional 11,500 are awaiting confirmation or need more investigation to determine where people contracted the parasite. The CDC noted that there have been 423 hospitalizations related to cyclosporiasis this year, with 45 states reporting cases of the gastrointestinal illness.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is difficult to track Cyclospora, which means that much of the data investigators have about an outbreak comes from people interviewed about what they\u2019ve eaten. What\u2019s more, the illness has a delayed onset of one to two weeks after exposure, adding to a lag in reporting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s likely that the number of cases in this large outbreak could lessen soon. \u201cTypically, outbreaks of this type do have their natural history,\u201d Hedberg said. \u201cWe may well be on a downslope.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

UK cases linked to Mexican resorts<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)\u00a0announced<\/a> it is seeing an uptick in people being diagnosed with cyclosporiasis. The agency noted that 67 people who reported traveling were diagnosed as having cyclosporiasis, and 48 of them said they had been in Mexico, staying at hotels near Riviera Maya and Cancun and eating and drinking at their resorts.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of cases in the Cyclospora outbreak that\u2019s unrelated to the massive nine-state lettuce-related cluster has increased…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-567514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}