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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: 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

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

CDC, FDA say Cyclospora outbreak more widespread that originally thought

The CDC and FDA are tracking at least two major outbreaks of infections from the Cyclospora parasite with a combined number of confirmed patients approaching 7,000. The first outbreak,

By Coral Beach

/ 24 Jul 2026

CDC, FDA say Cyclospora outbreak more widespread that originally thought

Publisher's Platform: Does a public swimming complex adjacent to Taylor Farms lettuce operation pose a Cyclospora threat? Probably.

Two hundred and thirty-five meters from the processing building — roughly eight hundred feet, a three-minute walk — sits Balneario Las Fajanas, a public thermal-water bathing complex with pools, water slides, changing rooms, showers, grills and picnic shelters, open every day of the year.

By Bill Marler

/ 24 Jul 2026