Explosive Diarrhea Virus Expands to 9 States

CHRIS HELGREN / REUTERS The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has expanded the nation’s largest known Cyclospora outbreak to include nine extra states. Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania join Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia in an ongoing investigation involving contaminated shredded iceberg lettuce. Cyclospora infections have been reported in at least 41 states this year, but investigators are still working to determine how many are part of the nine-state…