The Washington Post reported at 2:21 this afternoon, Lena H. Sun and Rachel Roubein reporting, that CDC is expanding this outbreak from nine states to fifteen, adding six where illnesses have been traced to shredded iceberg lettuce from central Mexico.
Here are the fifteen, since nobody has put them in one place. The nine
The FDA’s outbreak table now lists 212 people sickened in an outbreak of Salmonella Javiana, up from 106 the week before. The agency says it has conducted traceback and initiated sampling. It has not said what food it traced, what it is sampling, where the sick live, or how old they are. The outbreak went
Boticelli Foods of Melville NY, is recalling 1 lot of bettergoods Pistachio Nut Butter, NET WT 6.7oz (190g), UPC 194346207961, Lot LB028ACP04, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune
On July 29, Publix recalled every lot of GreenWise Organic Whole Blueberries and Whole Mixed Berries — 10-ounce and 48-ounce, blueberries and mixed berries alike — after a July 3 recall by the Chilean grower-packer had covered exactly one lot of one product. The bug is E. coli O145:H28. Twelve people are confirmed sick
Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods, a Richmond, Va., establishment, is recalling approximately 22,880 pounds of baked spaghetti and chicken cobbler products that may be contaminated with foreign material, specifically metal slivers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The baked spaghetti and chicken cobbler items were produced from July 1, 2026
Cumulative Cyclospora cases reported in 2026, against the only recall issued. The shaded band is the seventeen days of Taylor Farms de Mexico product covered by the July 17 recall. The bars beneath show the only illness-onset ranges CDC and FDA have published.
As of my fourth cup of coffee this morning, Fifty state health departments still
North Carolina announced on July 28 that it has 718 cyclosporiasis cases and 24 hospitalizations since May 1, and launched a public dashboard that updates every Tuesday. Start with the credit, because it is earned: most states in this outbreak have published nothing like this, and a few have published nothing at all.
Now the
The Alabama Department of Public Health put out a news release on July 20 that, as far as I can tell, almost nobody outside Alabama read. It deserved better. Twenty-eight reported cases of cyclosporiasis as of that date, 22 of them in the Northern District, two hospitalizations, no deaths, four cases tied to international travel.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is alerting Coloradans to a significant increase in Salmonella cases and asking people to be aware of the symptoms.
As of July 28, more than 250 Salmonella cases have been reported in Colorado since July 1. Over the past five years, Colorado has averaged 125 cases during
Publix is recalling all lots of GreenWise Organic Whole Blueberries and GreenWise Organic Whole Mixed Berries because the fruit may be contaminated with E. coli O145:H28. The recall covers both the 10-ounce and 48-ounce bags — UPC 41415-06453 and 41415-12053 for the blueberries, 41415-06753 and 41415-12153 for the mixed berries — sold at Publix stores
This morning this table said 18,687. Six hours later it says 19,330, and almost none of that is the parasite moving faster. Two states posted new numbers this afternoon, and I found a third I had been carrying wrong for eleven days. That is the honest cost of counting an outbreak one state at