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Michigan health officials say people can resume regular lettuce-eating habits as new cases of cyclosporiasis slow

Fresh greens at the market. (Maria Korneeva/Getty Images)

(NEW YORK) — Michigan health officials said on Thursday that people can resume regular lettuce- and salad greens-eating habits as new cases of cyclosporiasis slow.

It’s one of nine states in a multi-state outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce served at some Taco Bell restaurants.

The iceberg lettuce was supplied by Taylor Farms and sourced from central Mexico. Taylor Farms issued a voluntary recall of all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico. 

The state has seen more than 12,400 cases since June, including 279 hospitalizations and two deaths, health department data shows.

Taco Bell also said it is no longer using lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico at any of its restaurants. 

The update from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) said the majority of contaminated produce is “likely” no longer available to consume.

Additionally, new cyclosporiasis cases and related emergency department visits are declining, MDHHS said. Most exposures occurred in late June or early July, the department noted.

“Since the start of this outbreak, MDHHS has remained committed to providing timely, transparent information and clear recommendations to Michigan residents,” Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, MDHHS chief medical executive, said in a press release. “As new data has emerged, our guidance has evolved to reflect the best available evidence, helping ensure that prevention recommendations are accurate, actionable and responsive to the changing situation.”

The recommendation to avoid bagged salad mixes is no longer in effect, the department said.

“Residents may resume their usual food handling practices and make choices based on their individual risk tolerance,” the release from MDHHS added.

Consumers should continue avoiding any recalled food products, health officials noted, as well as continuing to rinse fruits and vegetables and washing hands and surfaces often.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has previously said it is investigating other outbreaks and illnesses of cyclosporiasis nationally that are unrelated to the nine-state outbreak.

Since May 1, cases of cyclosporiasis have topped 22,000 in 47 states, according to data updated by the CDC on Tuesday.

There are at least 10,468 laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis, including 423 hospitalizations, the CDC data shows. The agency is also aware of at least 12,255 additional cases that have not yet been laboratory confirmed or require further investigation and analysis.

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Trump again tries to curb birthright citizenship and ‘birth tourism’ through executive action

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(CNN) — President Donald Trump is taking another swing at limiting so-called birth tourism and birthright citizenship, citing a “very unfortunate decision” in the Supreme Court this year that struck down his earlier attempt to curb birthright citizenship.He signed executive orders on the subject Thursday, which appear to largely tighten laws already in place and narrow recognized exceptions.It’s a seemingly more limited attempt compared to an executive order Trump signed last year that sought to broadly end the right for children born in the country to people who are not US citizens. The Supreme Court rejected that effort in June, citing the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which grants citizenship to anyone born on American soil.“We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday.One of the executive orders signed by Trump Wednesday targets “alien enemies,” members of foreign terrorist organizations and categories of people who lobby and act on behalf of foreign governments — making children born to people in those groups ineligible for birthright citizenship, said White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, the architect of the administration’s immigration policies.The second executive order focuses on so-called birth tourism, which has been a focal point for immigration hawks. US law already bans people from obtaining a visa “for the primary purpose of obtaining U.S. citizenship for a child by giving birth in the United States.”Miller described the executive order as a ban on birth tourism, though it’s unclear how it would advance what is already in US code.Axios first reported on the executive actions.The Supreme Court’s decision on June 30 included a full-throated defense of birthright citizenship as it has been understood in the United States for more than a century. Children born on American soil, the court ruled, are US citizens even if their parents are in the country illegally or temporarily.A five-justice majority held that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees that right, over dissents from conservative justices who complained that the decision did nothing to stop the kind of birth tourism Trump initially targeted.A sixth justice, Brett Kavanaugh, concluded that Trump’s initial executive order limiting birthright citizenship was barred by federal law rather than the 14th Amendment.“Citizenship, then and now, was the right to have rights — to freely participate in our political community,” Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative, wrote for the court. “The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today.”The court has long recognized some exceptions to the rule, and it did so again in its blockbuster decision this summer. But those are limited to children born to diplomats and “enemies” during a “hostile occupation.”Still, several members of the court’s conservative wing complained at the time that the June 30 decision would allow the kind of birth tourism Trump was concerned about.“The court has repurposed the Fourteenth Amendment to protect its own set of preferred rights that the Reconstruction Congress never contemplated and that cannot find support in its text,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in a dissent. “Today, the court does so again by recognizing a constitutional right to citizenship for the children of all foreign birth tourists and illegal aliens.”That opinion was joined by only one other member of the court: Justice Neil Gorsuch.“As interpreted by the court today, the Fourteenth Amendment confers citizenship on virtually everyone who happens to be born in this country, including the children of ‘birth tourists,’ women who come here solely for the purpose of giving birth to a child and then promptly return home,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a solo dissent.The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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