Two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan, state health officials announced Monday, the first deaths confirmed in the US related to the microscopic parasite.<\/p>\n
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said both people had underlying health conditions that may have been impacted by the intestinal illness and dehydration. The department said it would not provide additional information about the deaths.<\/p>\n
Cyclospora is a microscopic, spherical parasite that commonly causes watery diarrhoea \u201cwith frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements,\u201d according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Outbreaks tend to occur most often in the late spring and summer.<\/p>\n
The CDC says the illness, called cyclosporiasis, is rarely deadly.<\/p>\n
The heat-loving parasite infects the bowels and spreads through faeces. In the past, people have been infected by consuming fruits or vegetables that were exposed to faeces-contaminated irrigation water.<\/p>\n
Dr Joel Kammeyer, the division chief of infectious diseases at Wayne State University and the Detroit Medical Centre, called the deaths a \u201ctragedy\u201d but noted that despite thousands of cyclosporiasis cases, only two people have died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan, state health officials announced Monday, the first deaths…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[259580,245611,256941,241382,3487,54826,259578,42,259577,103931,1326,20011,259579,43,29938,203375,40,38,41,39,208],"class_list":["post-574115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-centres-for-disease-control-and-prevention","tag-cyclospora","tag-cyclospora-outbreak","tag-cyclosporiasis","tag-e-coli","tag-faeces","tag-food-borne-illnesses","tag-headlines","tag-irrigation-water","tag-lettuce","tag-mexico","tag-michigan","tag-michigan-department-of-health-and-human-services","tag-news","tag-salmonella","tag-taco-bell","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574115","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=574115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}