Cyclosporiasis outbreak in Michigan grows to nearly 700 cases - WILX

(News 10) - A parasitic infection called cyclosporiasis has sickened nearly 700 people across Michigan, state health officials said, with the case count quadrupling from roughly 170 in less than a week. State health officials said the outbreak is growing rapidly and they are working to bring it under control. “The morning of the 3rd, I got woken up at about seven in the morning with the most, like, excruciating abdominal pain I’ve ever had,” Hompstead said. Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Michigan’s chief medical executive, said the volume of cases is making it harder to trace the source of the outbreak. “There is food that is grown in one state, that is packaged and processed in another state, and then sent out to a variety of states,” she said. Hompstead said she is hoping to access the antibiotic used to treat the infection, because right now she said it is “hard to function.”.