Mexico’s health ministry says it tests at hotels in the Riviera Maya, a major tourist area on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, come back negative for the cyclospora parasite (cyclosporiasis). The Independent reports that the ministry tested samples from more than a dozen hotels and found no evidence of the parasite.
The probe follows reports from the UK linking cyclospora cases to travel in Mexico. Mexico News Daily says that after information about dozens of UK patients who visited Mexico, investigators examined the Riviera Maya hotels to check whether an outbreak source could be identified. It reports the investigation concludes there is no presence of the parasite in the sampled hotels, describing the situation as correlation rather than causation.
Across the two outlets, the common point is that Mexico conducts testing in the Riviera Maya after UK-linked case reports and that results do not show cyclospora in the hotels examined. The reporting does not detail other potential locations, broader environmental testing, or confirm where infections in the UK patients originated.
