{"id":397305,"date":"2026-09-11T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397305\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:04:08","slug":"fda-declares-cyclospora-outbreak-over-six-cases-in-charlotte-county-port-charlotte-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397305\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA declares cyclospora outbreak over; six cases in Charlotte County | Port Charlotte News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT CHARLOTTE \u2014 The amount of cyclosporiasis cases in Charlotte County have reached six as of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Food &amp; Drug Administration announced the outbreak has ended on the same day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/food\/foodborne-pathogens\/cyclospora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to the FDA<\/a>, the outbreak was associated with contaminated iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico. It started in May, and there have been 19,595 cases across the nation as of Sept. 8.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flhealthcharts.gov\/ChartsReports\/rdPage.aspx?rdReport=FrequencyMerlin.Frequency&amp;FirstTime=True\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Florida Department of Health<\/a> documents six cases in Charlotte County residents as of Sept. 5. The Bureau of Epidemiology receives information from health providers and reports it through its disease surveillance system Merlin.<\/p>\n<p>Cases are reported under a resident\u2019s home location regardless of where the disease was contracted. The age groups of people affected vary between 40-44 and 75-79.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cyclosporiasis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> defines cyclosporiasis as a gastrointestinal illness caused by the cyclospora parasite. Contaminated consumables with human feces containing the parasite causes the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms of cyclosporiasis include:<\/p>\n<p>Watery diarrheaFatigueNauseaDehydration<\/p>\n<p>Although the FDA declared the outbreak has ended, it will continue to investigation Taylor Farms lettuce.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/cdc.gov\/cyclosporiasis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cdc.gov\/cyclosporiasis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT CHARLOTTE \u2014 The amount of cyclosporiasis cases in Charlotte County have reached six as of Friday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,41670,140490,135480,4475,1369,48020,143838],"class_list":["post-397305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-cdc","tag-cyclospora","tag-cyclosporiasis","tag-fda","tag-florida-department-of-health","tag-lettuce","tag-taylor-farms-de-mexico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397305","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=397305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}