{"id":243943,"date":"2026-07-15T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243943\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:20:07","slug":"parasite-infection-cases-turn-up-in-pittsburgh-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243943\/","title":{"rendered":"Parasite Infection Cases Turn Up In Pittsburgh Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Allegheny County Health Department has identified 11 cases of cyclosporiasis as of Tuesday. The health department is working closely with state and federal partners to investigate if there is a link between the cases. <\/p>\n<p> Cyclosporiasis is an intestinal illness caused by a parasite called cyclospora. People get infected with cyclospora by eating food or drinking water contaminated with the parasite. It is not spread directly from person to person. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Allegheny County Health Department has identified 11 cases of cyclosporiasis as of Tuesday. The health department is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-243943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}