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Federal officials poised to declare end of U.S.’s largest known cyclosporiasis outbreak
More than 19,500 illnesses and two deaths were tied to the nationwide outbreak, and investigators linked the largest cluster to shredded iceberg lettuce.
- Federal officials are planning to declare the end of the summer's cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce, the Washington Post reported, with the outbreak spanning 20 states and sickening at least 11,458 people.
- Investigators traced the illnesses to shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms in Mexico, prompting the company to remove items sourced from central Mexico from the US market and begin a recall in mid-July.
- Michigan was the hardest-hit state, where about 1 in every 1,000 people contracted the illness, while food science expert Matthew Moore of the University of Massachusetts Amherst noted a significant delay between contamination and reported illness.
- The Taylor Farms facility in Doctor Mora, Mexico, remains closed with no reopening date, while the FDA remains confident that all recalled iceberg lettuce related to this specific Cyclosporaoutbreak is off the market.
- Because cyclospora is not transmitted person-to-person, the outbreak will naturally die off, said Dr. Colleen Kraft, a professor of infectious diseases at Emory University School of Medicine, as officials finalize laboratory testing.
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CDC Nears Calling End to Lettuce-Borne Outbreak
Federal health officials are closed to calling time on what they say is the larget cyclospora outbreak ever held to a single food: shredded iceberg lettuce. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could declare the outbreak over on Thursday, the Washington Post reports, through the timing isn't locked in....
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