{"id":76059,"date":"2026-07-13T13:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/us-outbreak-of-parasite-causing-watery-diarrhea-rises-to-more-than-2800-cases\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:54:47","slug":"us-outbreak-of-parasite-causing-watery-diarrhea-rises-to-more-than-2800-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/us-outbreak-of-parasite-causing-watery-diarrhea-rises-to-more-than-2800-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"US outbreak of parasite causing \u2018watery diarrhea\u2019 rises to more than 2,800 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outbreak comes a year after Trump administration cut funding for state and local health departments<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/09\/cyclosporiasis-illness-explainer\">What is cyclosporiasis, the parasitic illness causing \u2018explosive\u2019 diarrhea?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>State health officials in Michigan and Ohio are reporting thousands of cases of cyclosporiasis, a \u2013 a parasitic infection that causes \u201cwatery diarrhea\u201d, loss of appetite and weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak of more than 2,800 cases comes a year after the Trump administration cut funding to state and local health departments and reduced the remit of a program dedicated to coordinating information on food borne illness, including of cyclospora.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/13\/cyclospora-outbreak-parasite-explosive-diarrhea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outbreak comes a year after Trump administration cut funding for state and local health departments What is cyclosporiasis, the parasitic illness causing \u2018explosive\u2019 diarrhea? State health officials in Michigan and Ohio are reporting thousands of cases of cyclosporiasis, a \u2013 a parasitic infection that causes \u201cwatery diarrhea\u201d, loss of appetite and weight loss. The outbreak &#8230; <a title=\"US outbreak of parasite causing \u2018watery diarrhea\u2019 rises to more than 2,800 cases\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/us-outbreak-of-parasite-causing-watery-diarrhea-rises-to-more-than-2800-cases\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US outbreak of parasite causing \u2018watery diarrhea\u2019 rises to more than 2,800 cases\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}