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The gastrointestinal illness cyclosporiasis continues to spread across Michigan, with state health officials reporting nearly 700 cases as of Monday — up from about 170 last week.

More than 170 people in Michigan have been sickened by a gastrointestinal parasite called Cyclosporiasis.

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Elizabeth Hertel will resign as of June 30. Governor Gretchen Whitmer has appointed Amy Epkey to serve as acting director of the agency.

The lawsuit claims that instead of providing safety and protection, staff at Vista Maria in Dearborn Heights regularly committed acts of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse on the girls in their care.

Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed a measles outbreak in Washtenaw County, with four known linked cases.

The AAP recommends that parents immunize their children against 17 different illnesses between birth and adolescence. As of earlier this week, that number also reflected federal health guidance, but the CDC has now cut that to eleven.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is using opioid settlement funds to invest in recovery housing. The goal of the project is to offer a stable living situation for people with substance use disorder.

The state health department has defunded the organization that oversaw foster care placements in Kent County for the past eight years.

State Sen. Sylvia Santana didn’t completely write off the possibility of the state temporarily covering funding for SNAP recipients, but she acknowledged it could be an uphill climb.

The agency that’s overseen foster care cases in Kent County for most of the past decade is suing the state health department for eliminating its funding, while judges that oversee child abuse and neglect cases in the county called the lack of transition planning a “child welfare emergency.”