{"id":358557,"date":"2026-07-31T07:23:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358557\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:23:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:23:24","slug":"cyclospora-outbreak-hits-florida-with-more-than-200-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358557\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclospora outbreak hits Florida with more than 200 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclospora outbreak hits Florida with more than 200 cases | County-by-county breakdown<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0ef9e7e2-0673-4d77-92c5-22a1e3663de5_1697751930.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Allison Petro\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Cases of a parasitic infection are increasing across the United States, with 258 confirmed cases reported in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>What is Cyclospora?<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">\u201cCyclospora is a foodborne parasite that gets into people\u2019s bodies, particularly their gut, and causes a diarrheal illness,\u201d said Dr. Steven Goldberg, chief medical officer for HealthTrackRx, an outpatient infectious disease laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s causing the outbreak?<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Researchers believe that contaminated produce, particularly lettuce and other salad greens, may be contributing to the current outbreak.  <\/p>\n<p>How to avoid contamination?<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Florida farmers are encouraging people to eat locally grown produce to avoid national outbreaks.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">To prevent contamination, farmers are taking additional precautions, such as using treated water rather than canal water to irrigate their crops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text\" data-node-id=\"10\">Here&#8217;s a look at the cases county-by-county so far in 2026:<\/p>\n<p>Alachua 4Bay  8Brevard 4Broward 22Collier 6Columbia 1Duval 5Escambia 2Flagler 3Gadsden 1Hernando 1Highlands 2Hillsborough 8Jackson 1Lake 5Lee 25Leon 4Manatee 6<br \/>Marion 3Martin 1Miami-Dade 42Monroe 1Nassau 1Okaloosa 4<br \/>Orange 22Osceola 7Palm Beach 11Pasco 5Pinellas 11Polk 7Santa Rosa 4Sarasota 4Seminole 5St. Johns 5St. Lucie 3 Sumter 3Volusia 8Wakulla 1Walton 2<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"12\">For more details, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flhealthcharts.gov\/ChartsReports\/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=FrequencyMerlin.Frequency&amp;FirstTime=True\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cyclospora outbreak hits Florida with more than 200 cases | County-by-county breakdown Cases of a parasitic infection are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[140046,140044,140041,140042,140045,513,1183,18906,87875,140040,140043,138529,89135,28,123151,30,29,6237,629,1130,1609,325,25097,4134,1064,140047,992,4103],"class_list":["post-358557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-1broward","tag-1flagler-1gadsden-1highland-1hillsborough","tag-1pinella","tag-2columbia-1duval","tag-2seminole","tag-beach","tag-case","tag-chief-medical-officer","tag-contamination","tag-contaminationflorida-farmer","tag-county-by-county-breakdown","tag-cyclospora-outbreak","tag-fields","tag-florida","tag-florida-farmer","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-highlands","tag-hillsborough","tag-jackson","tag-lake","tag-lee","tag-leon","tag-manatee","tag-miami-dade","tag-national-outbreak","tag-people","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358557","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=358557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}