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Cases of the severe diarrhea illness cyclosporiasis are spreading statewide, as a measles outbreak goes on in northeast Ohio.

This episode of All Sides will discuss the public health outbreak with a public health expert, gastroenterologist and journalist who covers the CDC and FDA.

Michigan health officials said both people had underlying health conditions that may have been impacted by the intestinal illness and dehydration.

Federal health officials have identified a single supplier of the produce from Mexico that was served in Taco Bell restaurants in five states.

There were 364 confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis in Ohio as of Wednesday. In an update a day later, that number is 1,274.

In Ohio, the outbreak has reached 397 confirmed cases in 57 of Ohio’s 88 counties.

The latest case involves an unvaccinated 6-year-old who traveled internationally and is not related to the four cases officials announced earlier this month.

Ohio is not including non-residents in its count, a state health department spokesperson told The Associated Press.

A Stark County adult who recently traveled to a state with confirmed measles cases is the first Ohioan to contract the disease this year.Ohio hasn’t seen…