FDA trying to track down cause of cyclosporiasis outbreak<\/a><\/p>\n“For us at home here in Buffalo, in Erie County, I was just communicating with our county health officials. We’ve had one single case,” Dr. Hu said. “But this is not above our typical threshold where seasonality comes into play. And there’s been 129 cases outside of New York City.”<\/p>\n
Health officials said one of the difficulties in investigating Cyclospora infections is the delay between exposure and the onset of symptoms. Because symptoms may not develop for up to two weeks, determining exactly where a person encountered the parasite can be challenging.<\/p>\n
Dr\/ Hu advised anyone experiencing prolonged gastrointestinal symptoms to seek medical attention. he added that people who have diarrhea that lasts more than a few days should see a health care provider.<\/p>\n
Unlike illnesses such as COVID-19 that can spread directly from person to person, health officials say Cyclospora is transmitted only through contaminated food or water.<\/p>\n
Health officials \u2014 both in Western New York and across the nation \u2014 said that they would\u00a0 continue to monitor cases and investigate exposures as they work to better understand the scope of the outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health officials are tracking a Cyclospora outbreak affecting people across the country, and one case has now been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-246606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246606","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=246606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}