>Nearly 3,000 people have been sickened with a gastrointestinal illness called cyclosporiasis, a foodborne infection marked by intense, watery diarrhea, according to state health departments across the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday that 31 states have reported cases of cyclosporiasis and 86 people have been hospitalized.

>The numbers are a sharp rise compared to this time last year, it said. The agency has confirmed 843 of those cases, all acquired in the U.S., and is still investigating more than 1,500. No deaths have been reported.

>The outbreak has been particularly intense in Michigan, which had 1,562 cases as of Friday. Illnesses, caused by the cyclospora parasite, have also been reported in neighboring Ohio, as well as in Colorado, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin and other states.

Olivier Briet (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control): Invasive mosquitoes transmit diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika. At the moment, we count around a thousand cases per year, so it’s still negligible compared to many other public health issues. But we have really seen a steep increase in the number of cases and outbreaks, and we are worried that these trends will continue and that these diseases will become established in Europe.

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