The Cyclospora outbreak linked to Taylor Farms lettuce

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   Pembaruan ke-422 Agu 20.40 UTC12 hari kemudian

   10,930 Sick From One Processor's Lettuce — California Farms Pay the Price

   10,930 cases trace to one Mexican processor's shredded iceberg. California lettuce was never implicated — but Salinas growers are destroying fields anyway.

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   • No public lot-level traceback, named farms, harvest dates, or handling failure point beyond the processor.
   • No verified clinical details on the two deaths and no verified price-crash percentage or loss totals.
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   Pembaruan ke-310 Agu 16.48 UTC19 hari kemudian

   Largest US Cyclospora Outbreak Ever: 47 States Ill, Michigan Tops 10,000 Cases

   Nearly 23,000 ill in 47 states, Michigan hardest hit with two deaths, and investigators still without a fully identified vehicle as sources disagree on the lettuce link.

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   • No fully identified contaminated product or point where cyclospora entered the food supply.
   • No single agreed account of the lettuce vehicle across the available sources.
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   Pembaruan ke-222 Jul 17.17 UTC40 jam kemudian

   4,173 Cases and Climbing: Inside America's Worst Cyclosporiasis Year

   4,173 Cases and Climbing: Inside America's Worst Cyclosporiasis Year

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   • Whether the Taylor Farms facility in central Mexico is in fact the source of the outbreak — the FDA's positive test was retracted, and Mexico denies a link.
   • The true case total, given roughly 7,500 unconfirmed or probable cases on top of the 4,173 confirmed .
   • Whether the CDC's July 2025 decision to make cyclosporiasis reporting optional has affected case detection in this outbreak.
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   Pembaruan ke-121 Jul 01.26 UTC

   Thousands Sick, One Test Pulled: FDA Walks Back Cyclospora Finding on Taylor Farms Lettuce

   A false-positive PCR result has been withdrawn, but the agency still says shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico is its best lead — and the recall across 27 states stays in place.

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   • The exact case count behind "thousands" — no source quantifies the total.
   • Whether the FDA issued a formal apology to Taylor Farms; Taylor Farms says yes, an FDA official says no.
   • The precise mechanism that produced the false positive — described as a PCR testing error in coverage but not explicitly attributed in the provided excerpts.