{"id":76207,"date":"2026-07-17T08:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/what-is-cyclosporiasis-the-parasitic-illness-causing-explosive-diarrhea\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:55:09","slug":"what-is-cyclosporiasis-the-parasitic-illness-causing-explosive-diarrhea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/what-is-cyclosporiasis-the-parasitic-illness-causing-explosive-diarrhea\/","title":{"rendered":"What is cyclosporiasis, the parasitic illness causing \u2018explosive\u2019 diarrhea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illness surging in Michigan and other US states is rarely life-threatening, CDC says \u2013 but it can have severe effects<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/03\/cdc-investigates-parasite-explosive-diarrhea\">CDC investigates parasite that\u2019s caused cases of \u2018explosive\u2019 diarrhea in 18 US states<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cases of cyclosporiasis \u2013 a parasitic illness that can cause \u201cexplosive\u201d, watery diarrhea \u2013 have surged across the United States in recent days, health officials have said, with an abnormally large outbreak of almost 1,000 cases reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/michigan\">Michigan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan typically reports about 50 cases a year, making the current outbreak the largest in the state\u2019s history and one of the nation\u2019s biggest in recent years. Ohio has also reported a sharp increase, with 177 cases as of 2 July, since the CDC\u2019s last count.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/17\/cyclosporiasis-parasite-symptoms-diarrhea-foods-explainer\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illness surging in Michigan and other US states is rarely life-threatening, CDC says \u2013 but it can have severe effects CDC investigates parasite that\u2019s caused cases of \u2018explosive\u2019 diarrhea in 18 US states Cases of cyclosporiasis \u2013 a parasitic illness that can cause \u201cexplosive\u201d, watery diarrhea \u2013 have surged across the United States in recent &#8230; <a title=\"What is cyclosporiasis, the parasitic illness causing \u2018explosive\u2019 diarrhea?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/what-is-cyclosporiasis-the-parasitic-illness-causing-explosive-diarrhea\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is cyclosporiasis, the parasitic illness causing \u2018explosive\u2019 diarrhea?\">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-76207","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\/76207","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=76207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}