{"id":961605,"date":"2026-07-27T02:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/961605\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T02:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:32:16","slug":"kcci-investigates-iowa-hhs-says-likely-cyclospora-cases-part-of-national-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/961605\/","title":{"rendered":"KCCI Investigates: Iowa HHS says likely Cyclospora cases part of national outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KCCI Investigates: Iowa cases may be tied to national outbreak of cyclosporiasis<\/p>\n<p>The parasitic illness causes explosive diarrhea and there are thousands of cases in nine state. Iowa Health and Human Services says the are completing interviews and reporting to the CDC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/news-team\/f7583908-eaa8-49e1-aa3c-aaca3ec8044f\" aria-label=\"Suzanne Behnke profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f7583908-eaa8-49e1-aa3c-aaca3ec8044f_1759181046.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Suzanne Behnke\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><strong class=\"css-ncbpmr\">DES MOINES, Iowa \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">State officials say there are Iowa cases of cyclosporiasis that are possibly tied to the national outbreak.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Iowa Health and Human Services Department tells KCCI Investigates that they are following up with these cases.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">As of Thursday, there are184 cyclosporiasis cases in 2026 in the state compared with 61 cases reported by the same time in 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Interviews have been completed for 117 cases, and 45 individuals reported international travel, HHS says.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">State health officials report these cases to the CDC once an interview is done.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">HHS says that Iowans must have consistent symptoms and either a positive laboratory result or an epidemiological link to a confirmed case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KCCI Investigates: Iowa cases may be tied to national outbreak of cyclosporiasis The parasitic illness causes explosive diarrhea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":961606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,6517,16460,368249,365952,170098,4639,63238,1815,386644,386646,150267,41145,60114,386645,16462,5996,41663,2450,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-961605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-case","tag-cdc","tag-cyclospora","tag-cyclosporiasis","tag-human-services-department","tag-individual","tag-international-travel","tag-interview","tag-iowa-cyclospora-case","tag-iowa-health","tag-iowa-hhs","tag-kcci","tag-kcci-investigates","tag-likely-cyclospora","tag-national-outbreak","tag-part","tag-state-official","tag-thursday","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}