What happened

The event date for this report is 2026-07-13. The foodborne gastrointestinal illness has shown up in 31 states, and federal health officials say 86 people have been hospitalized. The account is based on one supplied report and should be read as a record of conditions known at that point, rather than as a statement about later developments. Lettuce or salad greens could be the source of Michigan’s outbreak of cyclosporiasis, an infection characterized by intense diarrhea, state health officials reported Monday.

The available figures and chronology

“Early information has shown lettuce as a common product that regularly comes up during the investigation,” Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, the state’s chief medical executive, reported in a statement. These details help define the scale and immediate setting of the event without extending the evidence beyond what the supplied source states. Where a number is an estimate, provisional count, forecast or company claim, it should not be treated as a final independently audited total. The evidence packet does not support assumptions about motives, responsibility or longer-term outcomes beyond the facts described here.

The operational context

There is not enough information to pinpoint the type of produce, the grower or the supplier, and other food items cannot be ruled out, the state Department of Health and Human Services reported in the same statement. The finding applies only to Michigan, which has had the lion’s share of cases so far: 2,640. These details help define the scale and immediate setting of the event without extending the evidence beyond what the supplied source states. Where a number is an estimate, provisional count, forecast or company claim, it should not be treated as a final independently audited total. The evidence packet does not support assumptions about motives, responsibility or longer-term outcomes beyond the facts described here.

What remained uncertain

Total cases number near 3,000 for the foodborne gastrointestinal illness, which has shown up in 31 states as part of a national outbreak,, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC reported 86 people have been hospitalized. These details help define the scale and immediate setting of the event without extending the evidence beyond what the supplied source states. Where a number is an estimate, provisional count, forecast or company claim, it should not be treated as a final independently audited total. The evidence packet does not support assumptions about motives, responsibility or longer-term outcomes beyond the facts described here.

The record at the time

Taken together, the supplied material supports the main development in the headline and the specific details above. It does not establish what happened after 2026-07-13, and no later outcome is inferred here. The report therefore preserves the event-date framing, attributes the account to the available evidence and avoids turning an early figure or stated plan into a settled result. Further official data, technical findings or independent reporting could refine the picture, but those materials were not part of this packet.