Advisory: E. coli O157:H7 illnesses linked to romaine lettuce
STEC / E. coliUnder investigationSource wording: “Investigation ongoing”
Preliminary advisory. Case counts are provisional and are expected to change.
Reported figures
- Illnesses
- 23
- Hospitalizations
- 9
- Deaths
- 0
- Event date
- Mar 11, 2026
Figures are as reported by the source at its last update. Blank means the source did not report the figure — not zero.
Geography
- States
- Michigan, Ohio, Indiana
- Implicated food
- Romaine lettuce
Multiple states affected. Plotted once per state, at each state's centroid. No exposure location, venue or patient address is stored or shown.
Source
- Source
- CDC / state food safety advisories
- Source record
- https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/outbreaks/ (id seed-advisory-1)
- Published
- Mar 14, 2026
- Source last updated
- Mar 20, 2026
- Update cadence
- As published
- First ingested
- Aug 10, 2026
- Last seen in source
- Aug 10, 2026
Data caveat: Advisories are point-in-time public communications. Case counts in an advisory are preliminary and are routinely revised upward or downward as investigation continues.
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