A microscopic parasite carried in contaminated lettuce from a Mexican farm has quietly moved through American supply chains, surfacing most visibly at Taco Bell restaurants across five states and shattering every previous record for cyclospora illness in the United States. More than five thousand confirmed cases in Michigan alone remind us how a single farm, a single ingredient, and a single distribution chain can ripple outward into thousands of individual bodies. Federal investigators are still mapping the full reach of the contamination, holding open the possibility that the outbreak extend
Mexican lettuce at Taco Bell linked to record US cyclospora outbreak
Over 5,000 confirmed cyclospora cases reported in Michigan with 100+ hospitalizations; additional thousands of probable and suspected cases across 30+ states, though no deaths reported.