Dozens hospitalized with cyclosporiasis as cases of gastrointestinal illness spike in 31 states

FreeinChrist said:

In July last year, the CDC made tracking cyclospora optional as it scaled back its Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. At the time, food safety experts worried actions like this and other cutbacks at the CDC would make it harder to identify and respond to outbreaks.​

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essentialsaltes said:

If you stop testing, the numbers go down!

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FreeinChrist said:

Dozens hospitalized with cyclosporiasis as cases of gastrointestinal illness spike in 31 states

As state health officials scramble to find the source of the foodborne parasite, the CDC said Friday it’s unclear whether the outbreaks across the country are connected.

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Nearly 3,000 people have been sickened with a gastrointestinal illness called cyclosporiasis, a foodborne infection marked by intense, watery diarrhea, according to state health departments across the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday that 31 states have reported cases of cyclosporiasis and 86 people have been hospitalized....​

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The numbers are a sharp rise compared to this time last year, it said. The agency has confirmed 843 of those cases, all acquired in the U.S., and is still investigating more than 1,500. No deaths have been reported.....​

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The outbreak has been particularly intense in Michigan, which had 1,562 cases as of Friday. Illnesses, caused by the cyclospora parasite, have also been reported in neighboring Ohio, as well as in Colorado, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin and other states.​

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Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, chief medical executive of Michigan, said the rapid rise is “highly unusual.” The state usually sees 40 to 50 cases of cyclosporiasis a year. She said laboratories in the state are scrambling to sequence the genome of the bug to track where it came from....​

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In July last year, the CDC made tracking cyclospora optional as it scaled back its Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. At the time, food safety experts worried actions like this and other cutbacks at the CDC would make it harder to identify and respond to outbreaks.​

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Donald Schaffner, a food microbiology professor and department chair of the Department of Food Science at Rutgers University, said it’s unclear whether that made a difference in the current cyclosporiasis outbreaks.​

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“Could we have learned earlier? Could we be finding out more?” he said. “We need to be doing more to track these.”​

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Be sure to wash your fruits and veges and packaged salad.. I do it with vinegar water. Don't know if veges and fruits are the carriers or not but it is a good possiblity.

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FreeinChrist said:

Dozens hospitalized with cyclosporiasis as cases of gastrointestinal illness spike in 31 states

As state health officials scramble to find the source of the foodborne parasite, the CDC said Friday it’s unclear whether the outbreaks across the country are connected.

www.nbcnews.com

Nearly 3,000 people have been sickened with a gastrointestinal illness called cyclosporiasis, a foodborne infection marked by intense, watery diarrhea, according to state health departments across the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday that 31 states have reported cases of cyclosporiasis and 86 people have been hospitalized....​

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The numbers are a sharp rise compared to this time last year, it said. The agency has confirmed 843 of those cases, all acquired in the U.S., and is still investigating more than 1,500. No deaths have been reported.....​

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The outbreak has been particularly intense in Michigan, which had 1,562 cases as of Friday. Illnesses, caused by the cyclospora parasite, have also been reported in neighboring Ohio, as well as in Colorado, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin and other states.​

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Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, chief medical executive of Michigan, said the rapid rise is “highly unusual.” The state usually sees 40 to 50 cases of cyclosporiasis a year. She said laboratories in the state are scrambling to sequence the genome of the bug to track where it came from....​

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In July last year, the CDC made tracking cyclospora optional as it scaled back its Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. At the time, food safety experts worried actions like this and other cutbacks at the CDC would make it harder to identify and respond to outbreaks.​

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Donald Schaffner, a food microbiology professor and department chair of the Department of Food Science at Rutgers University, said it’s unclear whether that made a difference in the current cyclosporiasis outbreaks.​

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“Could we have learned earlier? Could we be finding out more?” he said. “We need to be doing more to track these.”​

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Be sure to wash your fruits and veges and packaged salad.. I do it with vinegar water. Don't know if veges and fruits are the carriers or not but it is a good possiblity.

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Gunny said:

The media enjoys pushing stories about sicknesses. It seems sometimes they attempt to create fear among the public, in my humble opinion.

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DaisyDay said:

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/20/nx-s1-5901356/fda-focused-taylor-farms-lettuce-cyclospora-source-despite-retracted-test

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The source of the Cyclospora illness outbreak remains unknown, after the Food and Drug Administration announced Sunday that a previous test identifying the parasite in a sample of lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico was not actually contaminated with Cyclospora.​

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The agency reviewed the results and said in a statement it "concluded that the finding does not represent true amplification and should be considered a false positive."​

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On social media, however, the FDA clarified that "this false-positive lab sample DOES NOT change the basis for FDA's ongoing outbreak investigation or the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms."​

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Belk said:

Fear sells. This is why it can be detrimental to have everything operate on a profit motive.

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Gunny said:

I discovered during Walter Cronkite days that the Alphabet networks are highly skewed politically, in my humble opinion.

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Belk said:

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Gunny said:

My sister back in the day was an atheist, hippie and a feminist. She is seventy six years old and she she is still an atheist, states her children are atheists and she informed me that her grandchildren will be atheists. My sister called me a few years ago after not speaking with me for 20+ years to inform me of these things.
I pray for my sister and her family daily for salvation through Jesus Christ.

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