In the quiet machinery of a modern food supply chain, a microscopic parasite found its passage from Mexican fields to the tables of five American states, sickening more than 1,600 people who had simply stopped for a meal. Health investigators, tracing the invisible thread backward through distribution networks and supplier records, arrived at a single source: shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell locations across the Midwest and Appalachia. The outbreak is a reminder that the distance between farm and fork is rarely as safe as it appears, and that the most ordinary choices — a taco, a T
FDA links Cyclospora parasite outbreak to Taco Bell lettuce across five states
94 people hospitalized across five states due to parasitic infection; no deaths reported to date.