Diarrhea due to vegetables with Cyclospora are rare in the United States
The rare
parasite Cyclospora cayetanensis has caused at least 235 illnesses in six Midwestern states since mid-June, according to state health department reports Friday.
The number stood at 206, including case counts in Iowa, Texas and
Nebraska diarrheal Illnesses were known to have occurred in Wisconsin, but the
number of cases there had not yet been reported. Recently, the Wisconsin
Department of Health Services is reporting at least four illnesses among
residents of Milwaukee, Brown and Grant Counties. Also in Nebraska, the number
of reported illnesses has risen from 53 to 63. Cases in that state are largely
concentrated in the East. Iowa reported 109 Cyclospora
illnesses Friday, up seven from the 102 it reported Thursday. n Texas, the case
count stood at 56 Friday, according to a CIDRAP. That same report cited two
illnesses in Illinois and one in Kansas. While the Nebraska and Iowa cases have
been established to be part of the same outbreak, suggesting that they arose
from a common source, a connection between the outbreak and the illnesses in
Wisconsin and Texas has yet to be officially established; however evidence is
suggesting that the 52 Cyclospora cases in these two states are probably part
of the outbreak as well.
Diarrhea
due to Cyclospora is rare in the
United States. When they do occur, the source is most commonly either a fresh
fruit or vegetable. An outbreak of Cyclospora
that sickened at least 1,465 people in the U.S. and Canada in 1996 was later
traced to raspberries imported from a Chilean producer in Guatemala.
The source
of the ongoing Cyclospora outbreak in
the Midwest is thought to be a fresh vegetable. Because fresh produce has a
relatively short shelf life, the contaminated product is no longer thought to
be on the market, investigators continue to try to determine the exact source
of the parasite.
Source: http://foodpoisoningbulletin.com/2013/cyclospora-attorney-investigates-lawsuit-for-outbreak-in-iowa-nebraska-illinois-kansas-texas-and-wisconsin/
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