In addition to cyclospora, surveillance of campylobacter, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia was cut. FoodNet now only regularly monitors two diseases: Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli.
A list of CDC talking points seen by NBC News last summer clearly blamed funding for the program’s drastic cutback.
“Funding has not kept pace with the resources required to maintain the continuation of FoodNet surveillance for all eight pathogens,” the talking point read.
The states are dealing with a cyclospora parasite outbreak.
Taco bell is actually being responsible pulling items prematurely, because there is still no information where it originated or how it’s spreading.
Edit- worth mentioning the CDC used to proactively track this parasite, but toddler in chief dropped that program last year.