The FDA has linked the outbreak in Iowa and Nebraska to prepackaged salads sold to Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants, but no common source of food causing the gastrointestinal infection in Texas has been pinpointed.
Texas is now reporting 171 cases of cyclosporiasis as local, state and federal officials continue investigating the source of the stomach bug that has infected more than 425 people in 17 states.
The federal Food and Drug Administration has linked the outbreak in Iowa and Nebraska to prepackaged salads produced by a Mexican farm. And the salads were sold to Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants in those states.
