Cyclospora Cases Double in Maryland as Outbreak Spreads to 34 States

Hundreds of people across 34 states are experiencing diarrheal illness from cyclosporiasis infection, with cases rapidly multiplying.

Across more than a third of the United States, a parasitic illness is quietly multiplying through the food supply, leaving health officials to investigate backward from hundreds of sick people toward an origin they have not yet found. Cyclospora — a single-celled parasite long associated with imported produce — has now reached 34 states, with Maryland's case count more than doubling in a single week and Arizona reporting 19 infections. The CDC is leading an investigation that depends on the slow, painstaking work of tracing what people ate before they fell ill, even as the outbreak continues t

Cyclospora Cases Double in Maryland as Outbreak Spreads to 34 States

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