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.

State2026 casesAs ofCDC Aug 27All of 2025LettuceTaylor Farms
Michigan14,718Sep 34,84650YesLinked
Ohio5,452Aug 132,67976YesLinked
Missouri2,152Aug 231,010none reportedYesLinked
Indiana2,104Sep 282327YesLinked
Illinois1,437Aug 18278301YesLinked
North Carolina940Aug 262300YesLinked
New York939Aug 170694YesUnknown
Kansas829Aug 2633129YesLinked
Kentucky819Aug 1232945YesLinked
Oklahoma556Aug 2524141YesLinked
Florida450Aug 150210YesUnknown
Iowa327Aug 2013064YesLinked
Texas315Aug 1120512YesLinked
West Virginia315Aug 281608YesLinked
Arkansas287Aug 258213YesLinked
Virginia234Aug 240115YesUnknown
Nebraska218Aug 619951YesLinked
Wisconsin216Aug 5065YesUnknown
Pennsylvania214Aug 11244not notifiableYesLinked
Colorado150Jul 170205NoUnknown
Massachusetts147Aug 51874YesLinked
New Hampshire94Aug 25427YesLinked
Alabama85Aug 3019YesUnknown
Washington76Aug 280not availableMay haveTravel link
Maryland69Jul 170123YesNo link found
New Jersey46Jul 110180YesUnknown
Tennessee44Jul 16538YesLinked
California41Jul 140not availableMay haveUnknown
Minnesota41Jul 170none reportedNoUnknown
Connecticut35Jul 17041YesUnknown
Maine27Aug 7164YesLinked
Oregon23Jul 240not availableNoTravel link
Arizona19Jul 17049NoUnknown
Georgia11Jul 173116YesLinked
Mississippi7Jul 220not notifiableYesUnknown
Hawaii6Aug 260not availableNoNo link found
Alaska5Jul 1606NoUnknown
Rhode Island4Jul 1706May haveNo link found
South Dakota3Jul 1603May haveUnknown
Louisiana1Jul 17099YesUnknown
Utah1Jul 17037NoNo link found
Delawareno count published—01May haveUnknown
Idahono count published—0not notifiableNoUnknown
Montanano count published—08NoUnknown
Nevadano count published—0not notifiableNoUnknown
New Mexicono count published—09NoNo link found
North Dakotano count published—04May haveUnknown
South Carolinano count published—045YesUnknown
Vermontno count published—03May haveUnknown
Wyomingno count published—00NoUnknown
All fifty states33,457 11,458 3120

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.