Man loses job after falling ill from Cyclosporiasis

It had been years since Edgar Mercado had eaten at a Taco Bell restaurant. But early last month, his 14-year-old son wanted some, so he took him to the one near Belmont and Milwaukee avenues. “We ate there. A couple of days later, I got sick. My stomach was in pain, like somebody hit me with a hockey stick. I threw up a few times and then the diarrhea. I was dizzy and I couldn’t get out of bed,” said 50-year-old Mercado, who lives in the Jefferson Park neighborhood. Once he was able to get to a…