On September 11, 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared the multistate Cyclospora outbreak linked to Taylor Farms de Mexico iceberg lettuce over. The final count is 12,883 laboratory-confirmed illnesses, 570 hospitalizations and 2 deaths, both in Michigan, across 21 states, with onsets from June 14 through August 17. The Food and Drug
Federal officials are poised to declare the end of the largest known Cyclospora outbreak in the history of the United States. I did not learn that from CDC or FDA. As I write this, CDC’s own outbreak page, stamped September 3, still lists the investigation as open. I learned it the way the country
The seed supplier FDA has declined to name in the alfalfa sprout outbreak that has sickened 55 people in 15 states is International Sprout Holdings, Inc., which does business as International Specialty Supply in Cookeville, Tennessee. My friend Phyllis Entis, the FoodBugLady, found it today in FDA’s weekly Enforcement Report and published it on eFoodAlert
The 2026 Cyclospora season closed on August 31. CDC’s national count for May 1 through August 31 is 18,445 laboratory-confirmed domestic cases, 990 hospitalizations, two deaths and forty-nine states plus the District of Columbia, against 1,180 cases in the same stretch of 2025. I went back through four weeks of the public record, August
Christina Jewett and Julie Creswell of the New York Times obtained Michigan’s outbreak correspondence under the state’s open records law and published the dates on August 15. An epidemiologist on the state’s rapid response team asked Yum Brands for Taco Bell’s supply chain records on July 1. She asked again on July 3. She
The 2026 cyclosporiasis season closed on August 31. Between July 14 and August 13, thirteen letters went from members of the House and Senate to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to the acting heads of FDA and CDC, and twice to the chief executive of Taylor Farms. Eight of them set a
The cyclosporiasis season that CDC defines, May 1 through August 31, closed yesterday, August 31, 2026. It closes with 17,180 laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis acquired in the United States, 922 hospitalizations and two deaths across forty-eight states and the District of Columbia, against 1,180 for the entire 2025 season. It closes with 11,458 of those
CNBC’s Brandon Gomez published a piece on Friday on how Taylor Farms became integral to America’s food supply — roughly $7.3 billion in sales last year, 40 percent of the salad kits sold in American grocery stores, and a customer list that runs from Walmart, Kroger, Whole Foods and Target to McDonald’s, Taco Bell and
This outbreak will close. Those that were sick, hopefully get better over time and their medical bills paid. Those that died have been buried.
Marcia Brown and Rachel Shin reported in Politico on Sunday that the federal government is shutting down two of the three United States Department of Agriculture research projects that study Cyclospora
Adding up what each of the fifty state health departments reports on their own websites, the floor under the 2026 Cyclospora outbreak this Tuesday evening, August 25, is 32,500 people.
CDC posted its weekly national update today: 17,180 laboratory-confirmed cases acquired in the United States since May 1, 922 hospitalizations, 2 deaths, and cases
