The federal Cyclospora outbreak linked to Taylor Farms de Mexico iceberg lettuce still stands at 11,458 laboratory-confirmed illnesses, at least 495 hospitalizations and two deaths across twenty states, on CDC and FDA pages last updated August 27, 2026. CDC’s national case-data page still reads September 1: 18,445 laboratory-confirmed illnesses acquired in this country since May 1, 990 hospitalizations, two deaths, forty-nine states plus the District of Columbia. Neither page had moved as of this afternoon. Two states did. Michigan posted its Thursday number, and Indiana posted what it says is its last number until the outbreak is formally closed. The fifty state health departments now report 33,457 cases of cyclosporiasis this season.
Cyclosporiasis is the intestinal illness caused by Cyclospora cayetanensis, a microscopic parasite that reaches produce when human waste reaches a field or the water that irrigates it, and that washing does not reliably remove. Two people are dead in Michigan.
Michigan added 208 cases and ten hospitalizations in a week.
MDHHS reports 14,718 cases as of September 3, up from 14,510 on August 27, and 366 people who told the state they had been hospitalized, up from 356. Two hundred and eight is Michigan’s smallest weekly move of the outbreak; the week before was 233, and the week before that was larger still. Michigan has posted on Thursdays since August 6, so the next number lands September 10. Wayne County still carries the most, 2,158 outside Detroit and 458 in the city, with Oakland County at 1,692. Set 14,718 against the 4,846 Michiganders CDC attributes to the lettuce and the state’s own count remains three times its federal share.
Indiana closed its count at 2,104.
The Indiana Department of Health posted 2,104 cases as of September 2, up fourteen from 2,090 a week earlier, and added a line I have not seen from any other state: this will be the final case update until the official close of the outbreak. Indiana has been the most disciplined publisher in the outbreak, every Wednesday by one o’clock, county by county. Allen County, which is Fort Wayne, has 512 of the state’s cases. CDC attributes 823 Hoosiers to the lettuce. The 2,104 now sits in the table as a frozen number, and I will say so every time it appears.
The fifty-state count is 33,457, and the two moves are the whole change.
Yesterday I published 33,235. Michigan’s 208 and Indiana’s 14 make 33,457. Nothing else in the table moved, and one row is overdue. Missouri publishes on Sundays and its August 30 figure has not reached anyone I can find; the table carries 2,152 as of August 23 until it does. Ohio has not published a statewide figure since 5,452 on August 13.
The federal arithmetic has not changed since Tuesday.
18,445 confirmed nationally, 11,458 in the outbreak, 6,987 confirmed illnesses this summer that CDC has tied to nothing. The hospitalizations still split 495 inside the outbreak and 495 outside it. CDC lists 3,491 confirmed cases still being sorted between domestic and travel, at least 13,505 more that are not laboratory confirmed or are waiting on an interview, and 1,900 travel-associated cases counted separately. Its outbreak updates have posted on Thursdays all summer. If today’s holds to form it will arrive after this is published, and I will write it up when it does.
Here is where all fifty states stand, with CDC’s number beside each one.
The CDC column is the exact per-state attribution CDC published August 27 in the data table behind its outbreak map; it sums to 11,458. The Lettuce column is whether FDA has confirmed the recalled product reached that state. The last column is whether anybody has tied the state’s illnesses to Taylor Farms at all. Every count is a floor.
| State | 2026 cases | As of | CDC Aug 27 | All of 2025 | Lettuce | Taylor Farms |
| Michigan | 14,718 | Sep 3 | 4,846 | 50 | Yes | Linked |
| Ohio | 5,452 | Aug 13 | 2,679 | 76 | Yes | Linked |
| Missouri | 2,152 | Aug 23 | 1,010 | none reported | Yes | Linked |
| Indiana | 2,104 | Sep 2 | 823 | 27 | Yes | Linked |
| Illinois | 1,437 | Aug 18 | 278 | 301 | Yes | Linked |
| North Carolina | 940 | Aug 26 | 2 | 300 | Yes | Linked |
| New York | 939 | Aug 17 | 0 | 694 | Yes | Unknown |
| Kansas | 829 | Aug 26 | 331 | 29 | Yes | Linked |
| Kentucky | 819 | Aug 12 | 329 | 45 | Yes | Linked |
| Oklahoma | 556 | Aug 25 | 241 | 41 | Yes | Linked |
| Florida | 450 | Aug 15 | 0 | 210 | Yes | Unknown |
| Iowa | 327 | Aug 20 | 130 | 64 | Yes | Linked |
| Texas | 315 | Aug 11 | 20 | 512 | Yes | Linked |
| West Virginia | 315 | Aug 28 | 160 | 8 | Yes | Linked |
| Arkansas | 287 | Aug 25 | 82 | 13 | Yes | Linked |
| Virginia | 234 | Aug 24 | 0 | 115 | Yes | Unknown |
| Nebraska | 218 | Aug 6 | 199 | 51 | Yes | Linked |
| Wisconsin | 216 | Aug 5 | 0 | 65 | Yes | Unknown |
| Pennsylvania | 214 | Aug 11 | 244 | not notifiable | Yes | Linked |
| Colorado | 150 | Jul 17 | 0 | 205 | No | Unknown |
| Massachusetts | 147 | Aug 5 | 18 | 74 | Yes | Linked |
| New Hampshire | 94 | Aug 25 | 42 | 7 | Yes | Linked |
| Alabama | 85 | Aug 3 | 0 | 19 | Yes | Unknown |
| Washington | 76 | Aug 28 | 0 | not available | May have | Travel link |
| Maryland | 69 | Jul 17 | 0 | 123 | Yes | No link found |
| New Jersey | 46 | Jul 11 | 0 | 180 | Yes | Unknown |
| Tennessee | 44 | Jul 16 | 5 | 38 | Yes | Linked |
| California | 41 | Jul 14 | 0 | not available | May have | Unknown |
| Minnesota | 41 | Jul 17 | 0 | none reported | No | Unknown |
| Connecticut | 35 | Jul 17 | 0 | 41 | Yes | Unknown |
| Maine | 27 | Aug 7 | 16 | 4 | Yes | Linked |
| Oregon | 23 | Jul 24 | 0 | not available | No | Travel link |
| Arizona | 19 | Jul 17 | 0 | 49 | No | Unknown |
| Georgia | 11 | Jul 17 | 3 | 116 | Yes | Linked |
| Mississippi | 7 | Jul 22 | 0 | not notifiable | Yes | Unknown |
| Hawaii | 6 | Aug 26 | 0 | not available | No | No link found |
| Alaska | 5 | Jul 16 | 0 | 6 | No | Unknown |
| Rhode Island | 4 | Jul 17 | 0 | 6 | May have | No link found |
| South Dakota | 3 | Jul 16 | 0 | 3 | May have | Unknown |
| Louisiana | 1 | Jul 17 | 0 | 99 | Yes | Unknown |
| Utah | 1 | Jul 17 | 0 | 37 | No | No link found |
| Delaware | no count published | — | 0 | 1 | May have | Unknown |
| Idaho | no count published | — | 0 | not notifiable | No | Unknown |
| Montana | no count published | — | 0 | 8 | No | Unknown |
| Nevada | no count published | — | 0 | not notifiable | No | Unknown |
| New Mexico | no count published | — | 0 | 9 | No | No link found |
| North Dakota | no count published | — | 0 | 4 | May have | Unknown |
| South Carolina | no count published | — | 0 | 45 | Yes | Unknown |
| Vermont | no count published | — | 0 | 3 | May have | Unknown |
| Wyoming | no count published | — | 0 | 0 | No | Unknown |
| All fifty states | 33,457 | 11,458 | 31 | 20 |
Counts as published by each state health department or as reported from it by a named outlet, compiled on September 3, 2026, with the as-of date shown. Forty-one states publish a 2026 count and those sum to 33,457; nine publish none. Indiana’s figure is the state’s stated final update pending formal close. CDC attribution is from the outbreak map data table of August 27, 2026; a zero means CDC assigns that state no illness in the outbreak, not that it has none. The two series are built differently: CDC counts laboratory-confirmed illness tied to the lettuce by interview; states count every case reported in their window, some including probable cases, and Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas and Kentucky on a calendar-year basis. Florida is shown on its May 1 series. Hawaii’s six include one investigated as locally acquired.
Thirty-three thousand counted by the states. Eleven and a half thousand attributed by CDC. Roughly one illness in three, and the ratio did not move today.
Three questions I am getting this week.
Is the Cyclospora outbreak over? The exposure ended in the middle of July. Fifteen onsets in the federal outbreak fall in August, the last on August 15, and Michigan’s weekly additions have fallen every week since the recall. Both agencies still call the investigation open, and CDC says the counting runs about six weeks past the August 31 close of the season.
Why is Indiana stopping? The state did not say. Its weekly change had fallen to fourteen, and a state that closes its public count while CDC keeps adding to the federal one is a state whose number will look smaller than its share. That is a choice Indiana made, and it deserves an explanation.
Will CDC’s outbreak number change? Its cadence is Thursdays. Watch the investigation page this evening, and the Locations table behind it, which is where the per-state attribution lives.
The season closed Monday. The states added 222 people to it today, one of them decided to stop counting in public, and the federal pages have not been touched in a week. Two people are dead, 990 have been hospitalized, the states that were willing to print a number have printed 33,457 of them, and nearly seven thousand confirmed illnesses this summer still have no attributed source at all. My September 1 post has the season-close numbers this one builds on.