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E. coli Outbreak Linked to Frozen Blueberries
Outbreak over CDC Outbreak notice Biological
Read the agency's notice · Agency id: ecoli/outbreaks/blueberries-07-26
What the agency said
Product
Frozen Blueberries
Status, as written
Outbreak over
Distribution, as written
2 states
Outbreak figures (CDC's latest)
17 cases · 6 hospitalized · 0 deaths
E. coli O145 · illnesses began May 11, 2026 to Aug 2, 2026
How this record is classified
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Root cause
Not stated by the agency
(CDC notices describe the contaminated food, not why it was contaminated)
Status
Outbreak over
Closed in this dataset's terms
Whether CDC still lists the investigation as open.
Dates
Posted: Jul 6, 2026
Last agency update: Sep 21, 2026
Closed: date not given
Last agency update: Sep 21, 2026
Closed: date not given
What is missing or inferred
Fields the source did not provide. They are shown as "not stated", never estimated.
- closedDate
- rootCause (CDC notices describe the contaminated food, not why it was contaminated)
Fields assigned by our rules from the agency's wording: productCategory. Rules version 1.0.
Record history
First seen by this site Sep 17, 2026, 2:29 PM UTC (loaded from the agency's history when the dataset was first built). Last changed Sep 21, 2026, 3:33 PM UTC. 1 revision since.
- Closed Sep 21, 2026, 3:33 PM UTCstatus: open → closedagency status: Investigation open → Outbreak overupdated date: 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-21
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