Cyclospora Outbreak Update as Trump Admin Reportedly Cuts Parasite Research
Several USDA-supported cyclospora research projects are reportedly being shuttered after losing federal funding.
The Trump administration is discontinuing key federal research into the Cyclospora parasite, despite a record-breaking outbreak of the foodborne diarrheal pathogen, according to Politico. Out of three research programs representing nearly all of the Cyclospora work at the USDA, two have been defunded, leaving only one with scientists still working on it.
This research is set to be relocated from the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in Maryland to a facility in Iowa. However, insiders reveal that none of the scientists are planning to move from Maryland, as many are retiring, being reassigned, or leaving the USDA research services altogether.
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