{"id":78088,"date":"2026-08-30T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T21:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/30\/usda-reportedly-shelves-cyclospora-research-amid-relocations-and-fund-cuts\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T21:56:07","slug":"usda-reportedly-shelves-cyclospora-research-amid-relocations-and-fund-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/30\/usda-reportedly-shelves-cyclospora-research-amid-relocations-and-fund-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA reportedly shelves cyclospora research amid relocations and fund cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump officials shuttering three projects on foodborne parasite, two defunded by Congress, Politico reports<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> is shuttering \u2060two of the three US Department of Agriculture research projects studying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/cyclosporiasis-outbreak--us-\">cyclospora<\/a> after the foodborne parasite has \u2060sickened tens of thousands of Americans during the summer, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/08\/30\/usda-cyclospora-research-projects-01055989\">reported<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The two projects were defunded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-congress\">Congress<\/a> earlier in the year, while the third is \u2060due to be moved in coming months from Maryland to Iowa as part of a broader USDA reorganization, according to the \u2060report.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/30\/usda-cyclospora-research-projects-shelved\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump officials shuttering three projects on foodborne parasite, two defunded by Congress, Politico reports The Trump administration is shuttering \u2060two of the three US Department of Agriculture research projects studying cyclospora after the foodborne parasite has \u2060sickened tens of thousands of Americans during the summer, Politico reported on Sunday. The two projects were defunded by &#8230; <a title=\"USDA reportedly shelves cyclospora research amid relocations and fund cuts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/30\/usda-reportedly-shelves-cyclospora-research-amid-relocations-and-fund-cuts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USDA reportedly shelves cyclospora research amid relocations and fund cuts\">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-78088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78088","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=78088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}