Before 1996 this parasite was a curiosity. It was first described in people in 1979, and in the United States it was mostly a souvenir of travel. Then in the spring and summer of that year raspberries imported from Guatemala sickened roughly 1,465 people across twenty states, the District of Columbia and two Canadian provinces
Last night I wrote that FDA’s outbreak table still said 212 cases and “Not Yet Identified” while CDC had already named Sinaloa and Coast Citrus Distributors and counted 345 sick in 27 states. This morning the agency moved. Reference #1395 on the outbreak table now reads “Jalapeño Peppers.” The case-count cell no longer says 212
The fifteen states in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, as of August 5, 2026. The thirty-five states in grey are not in the outbreak; several of them are reporting cyclosporiasis cases of their own.
CDC and FDA expanded this outbreak to fifteen states and put the federal count at 6,358 illnesses. Here is that count broken
CDC published a state-by-state breakdown of the Salmonella Javiana jalapeño outbreak along with its investigation notice. Twenty-seven states, 345 confirmed illnesses, 36 hospitalizations.
| State | Ill | State | Ill |
| Alabama | 1 | North Carolina | 3 |
| Arkansas | 1 | North Dakota | 1 |
| California | 1 | Nebraska | 5 |
| Colorado | 110 | Ohio | 2 |
| Georgia | 6 | Oklahoma | 8 |
| Illinois | 30 | South Carolina | 5 |
| Indiana |
I have been tracking this outbreak daily since it began. These are the questions I am actually being asked — by reporters, by clients, and by people who just want to know whether to eat a salad. Every figure below is current as of the evening of August 5, 2026, and every one of them
What is going on?
CDC, FDA and health departments in more than two dozen states are investigating an outbreak of SalmonellaJaviana linked to fresh jalapeño peppers. As of August 5, 345 people in 27 states are confirmed sick, 36 have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported. The peppers were grown by a
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