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Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Cucumbers - June 2024

Outbreak over CDC Outbreak notice Biological

Read the agency's notice · Agency id: salmonella/africana-06-24

What the agency said

Product

Cucumbers

Status, as written

Outbreak over

Distribution, as written

34 states

Outbreak figures (CDC's latest)

551 cases · 155 hospitalized · 0 deaths

Salmonella Africana · illnesses began Mar 11, 2024 to Jul 26, 2024

How this record is classified

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Hazard type

Biological

Stated by CDC

Organism, allergen, or material

Salmonella

Stated by CDC

Product category

Produce

Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules · food tags: cucumbers

Geography

Multi-state

Stated by the agency

34 states; named: AL, AR, CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV

Root cause

Not stated

Not stated by the agency

(CDC notices describe the contaminated food, not why it was contaminated)

How it was found

Illness reports or outbreak

Coded by the agency

“CDC outbreak investigation”

Corrective action

Outbreak investigation, recall issued

Stated by the agency

CDC notice: recall issued

Status

Outbreak over

Closed in this dataset's terms

Whether CDC still lists the investigation as open.

Dates

Posted: Oct 16, 2024
Last agency update: Oct 1, 2024
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 17, 2026, 3:08 PM UTC. 1 revision since.

Closed Sep 17, 2026, 3:08 PM UTC
status: unknown → closed
agency status: Status not stated → Outbreak over
corrective action: investigation → investigation-with-recall
geography: unspecified → multi-state
states: — → AL, AR, CA, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV
updated date: — → 2024-10-01
cases: — → 551
hospitalizations: — → 155
deaths: — → 0

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