CDC Warns on Recalled Mexico Lettuce as Cyclospora Cases Top 11,000 in 41 States
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Updated · BBC.com · Jul 24
CDC Warns on Recalled Mexico Lettuce as Cyclospora Cases Top 11,000 in 41 States
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Jul 24
Summary
More than 11,000 cyclospora cases have been tracked since mid-May across 41 states, with a lettuce-linked outbreak now spanning nine states and Michigan alone reporting over 8,100 infections.
The CDC on Friday told consumers not to eat recalled Taylor Farmsiceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico, which the company pulled on July 17.
That warning comes despite the FDA retracting an earlier statement that Taylor Farms lettuce had tested positive for cyclospora, saying the result was a false positive.
Cyclospora investigations often move slowly because symptoms can take weeks to appear, making it hard to reconstruct what patients ate and pinpoint a common source.