BATON ROUGE mdash; In only a week, confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis in Louisiana have nearly doubled, Louisiana Department of Health data from Thursday shows.As of Thursday, July 16, there have been 55 confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea . No additional hospitalizations have occurred since last week, when LDH reported one person hospitalized with Cyclospora.nbsp;No deaths have occurred from cyclosporiasis.WBRZ previously reported that the 2026 statistics from the state health department are up from previous years.Permalink| Comments ...read more read less