Erin Alman-Updyke
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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Cases are reported every single year, especially from May through August, which is cyclospora season.
So we've had cases in like over 31 states, but that's not unusual.
What's unusual is the sheer number that have happened in the last less than one month, essentially.
Record breaking.
Yes.
It's getting there.
It's getting there.
If we look at overall numbers, like, say, yearly numbers, they have been increasing since 2016 per the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance.
Before 2016, it was usually just a couple of hundred cases a year, except for years when we had larger outbreaks.
But every year since 2017, there have been over 2,000 cases.
In 2025, there was 3,900 cases.
2024, there was 4,200 cases.
But again, even knowing that, at this point last year, we had seen well under the number of cases that we're seeing right now.
And if you look at the actual state-level data, like this is July 12th, there's probably close to 3,000 cases that have actually been reported to states.
And the CDC is just really lagging on updating that data overall because their numbers on their official website say like 800 cases.
So it's not just the loss of FoodNet.
It is also the massive reductions in force that we have seen at the FDA, the USDA, and the CDC that have all had major effects on our ability not just to identify and trace back the sources of these outbreaks, but also communicate with the public.
A lot of the people that got laid off were in charge of this public-facing communication.
Yep.
And then the question of what is causing this particular outbreak or however many outbreaks are going on right now.
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