{"id":358533,"date":"2026-07-31T06:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358533\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T06:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:34:07","slug":"confirmed-cases-of-diarrhea-causing-parasite-in-north-central-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358533\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed cases of diarrhea causing parasite in North Central Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; CDC officials have reported 264 total cases of cyclosporiasis in Florida, up by nearly 100 cases in a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Of these 264 cases, four are from Alachua County, one from Columbia County, and three from Marion County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The outbreak is linked to contaminated water and food, such as fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Researchers say more than 18,000 cases have been reported nationwide. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; CDC officials have reported 264 total cases of cyclosporiasis in Florida, up by nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1365,1364,135480,50310,28,30,29,45347,124374],"class_list":["post-358533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-cases","tag-confirmed","tag-cyclosporiasis","tag-diarrhea","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-north-central-florida","tag-parasite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}