The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has now identified more than 80 people who have tested positive for a diarrhea-causing parasite that has sickened thousands, and a supplier linked to the nationwide outbreak is the same producer that has been linked to a rash of E. coli cases in St. Louis in 2024.
Missouri health officials have seen a significant increase in cyclospora cases in the past two weeks, but numbers are still below those of other states, Nathan Koffarnus, assistant bureau chief for the agency’s communicable disease bureau, said during a press call Thursday.
Federal officials have linked cyclospora to lettuce served at Taco Bell locations in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia…