Across five states and now into Mississippi, a quiet but persistent intestinal parasite has found its way into the American food supply through something as ordinary as a salad. More than 1,600 people have fallen ill from Cyclospora linked to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Taco Bell locations, while Mississippi's five separate cases hint at a contamination story still unfolding in ways investigators have yet to fully map. Taylor Farms has voluntarily recalled the implicated lettuce from a central Mexico farm, but the outbreak reminds us that the distance between a field and a dinner table
Mississippi reports Cyclospora cases as multistate outbreak linked to contaminated lettuce spreads
Over 1,600 people infected across five states with Cyclospora causing watery diarrhea, abdominal cramping, and loss of appetite; Mississippi cases under investigation.