LatinNews Daily - 22 July 2026

*Mexico’s health minister, David Kershenobich, has said that there are three cases in Mexico of cyclospora, an infection which causes diarrhoea. He described these as “habitual” cases and ruled out an outbreak. His comments come as Mexico’s federal sanitary protection agency (Cofepris) and the national service for agrifood health, safety, and quality (Senasica) announced earlier this week that they were investigating an outbreak in the US of cyclospora linked to shredded iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico. On 17 July Taylor Farms, a US-based lettuce supplier, announced it was “voluntarily removing all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico from the U.S. market, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Cyclospora” based on information from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, two days later, Taylor Farms reported that it had received an apology from the FDA, informing it that the “FDA made a mistake, and this was a false positive”. Speaking yesterday, Kershenobich said that Mexican health authorities had collected several samples from farms in Guanajuato state and were testing them for cyclospora and “so far, no evidence has been found that would allow us to conclude that it originated there… However, we are taking every precaution in the event that it did.” Yesterday US Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. said that the cyclospora outbreak in the US was “under control”. In its latest update on 14 July, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it had received reports of 1,645 confirmed cases in the US since 1 May and is “aware of more than 5,100 cases that require further analysis”.

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