{"id":76186,"date":"2026-07-16T19:57:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/cyclosporiasis-officials-looking-at-taco-bell-lettuce-supplier-as-potential-source-of-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T19:57:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:57:03","slug":"cyclosporiasis-officials-looking-at-taco-bell-lettuce-supplier-as-potential-source-of-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/cyclosporiasis-officials-looking-at-taco-bell-lettuce-supplier-as-potential-source-of-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclosporiasis: officials looking at Taco Bell lettuce supplier as potential source of outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Farms reportedly linked to outbreak thought to be in Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky<\/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>Amid an ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis, federal health officials are reportedly looking at iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms that was supplied to Taco Bell as a possible source.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday afternoon, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2026\/07\/16\/lettuce-supplier-is-potential-source-cyclosporiasis-outbreak-investigators-say\/\">Washington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/16\/health\/cyclospora-outbreak-shredded-lettuce\">CNN<\/a> and other media outlets reported that the lettuce supplier had been linked to the outbreak, citing unnamed sources \u201cfamiliar with the investigation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/16\/taco-bell-lettuce-cyclosporiasis-outbreak\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Farms reportedly linked to outbreak thought to be in Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky What is cyclosporiasis, the parasitic illness causing \u2018explosive\u2019 diarrhea? Amid an ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis, federal health officials are reportedly looking at iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms that was supplied to Taco Bell as a possible source. On Thursday &#8230; <a title=\"Cyclosporiasis: officials looking at Taco Bell lettuce supplier as potential source of outbreak\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/16\/cyclosporiasis-officials-looking-at-taco-bell-lettuce-supplier-as-potential-source-of-outbreak\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Cyclosporiasis: officials looking at Taco Bell lettuce supplier as potential source of outbreak\">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-76186","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\/76186","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=76186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}