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First deaths in Cyclospora outbreak reported by Michigan

As of Aug. 3 the state is reporting 11,234 patients.

By Coral Beach

/ 3 Aug 2026

First deaths in Cyclospora outbreak reported by Michigan

Publisher's Platform: Food safety is not expensive. Outbreaks are expensive.

USDA says Cyclospora costs America $5.3 million a year. The program I want restored cost $4.5 million a year. This summer alone has already blown past both.

By Bill Marler

/ 3 Aug 2026

Publisher's Platform: Food safety is not expensive. Outbreaks are expensive.

Polls Taken as Cyclospora Cases Passed 20,000 Show U.S. Food Safety Confidence at Record Lows. European, British and Canadian Measures Are Flat or Rising.

As of July 31, the states' own published counts totaled more than 21,000 cases across all fifty states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 1,947 outbreak-associated cases and 98 hospitalizations in nine states.

By News Desk

/ 1 Aug 2026

Polls Taken as Cyclospora Cases Passed 20,000 Show U.S. Food Safety Confidence at Record Lows. European, British and Canadian Measures Are Flat or Rising.

Publisher's Platform: The Fifty-State Cyclospora count is 20,927 this morning. The President has said one thing about it. The Secretary says it is under control. Here is what they should have said instead.

Ohio released new numbers today — 4,013 cases in 80 counties, up from 2,576 a week ago. Add the states up, one by one, all fifty of them, and the floor under this outbreak this morning is 20,927 people.

By Bill Marler

/ 31 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: The Fifty-State Cyclospora count is 20,927 this morning. The President has said one thing about it. The Secretary says it is under control. Here is what they should have said instead.

Patient counts in Cyclospora outbreak continue to increase

“We may well be on a downslope,” said Craig Hedberg, PhD, professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health,.

By Coral Beach

/ 31 Jul 2026

Patient counts in Cyclospora outbreak continue to increase

UK officials note rise in Cyclospora infections

Health officials in the United Kingdom have reported an increase in Cyclospora infections in people returning from Mexico. Between April 30 and July 15, 67 cases of cyclosporiasis were recorded

By Joe Whitworth

/ 31 Jul 2026

UK officials note rise in Cyclospora infections

Cyclospora outbreak patient count tops 18,000

Infections from microscopic parasite reported in 41 states

By Coral Beach

/ 30 Jul 2026

Cyclospora outbreak patient count tops 18,000

Publisher's Platform: The FDA closed the 2024 romaine E. coli outbreak without naming Taylor Farms. Sixteen months later we are counting 18,000 Cyclospora cases

Transparency is not a courtesy the government extends to a consumer standing in a produce aisle when it happens to be convenient. It is a record.

By Bill Marler

/ 29 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: The FDA closed the 2024 romaine E. coli outbreak without naming Taylor Farms. Sixteen months later we are counting 18,000 Cyclospora cases

Publisher's Platform: The lettuce pitchforks are out -- 7 letters in 14 days

Not one of these letters has been publicly answered

By Bill Marler

/ 29 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: The lettuce pitchforks are out -- 7 letters in 14 days

CDC reports more than 2,000 more patients in Cyclospora outbreak

Consumer, industry groups ask Senate committee to restore CDC tracking efforts

By Coral Beach

/ 28 Jul 2026

CDC reports more than 2,000 more patients in Cyclospora outbreak

Michigan posts more than 1,000 new Cyclospora cases

Taylor Farms invests less than 3 percent of sales in food safety efforts

By Coral Beach

/ 27 Jul 2026

Michigan posts more than 1,000 new Cyclospora cases

Publisher's Platform: There is no kill step for Cyclospora

The best consumer-level data is a 2021 study in Foods . . . nothing removed all of it. These oocysts are stickier than Cryptosporidium and Giardia.

By Bill Marler

/ 27 Jul 2026

Publisher's Platform: There is no kill step for Cyclospora

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