U.S. officials declared the largest recorded multistate cyclospora outbreak over. [1] Reuters filed it tied to recalled iceberg lettuce, with 12,883 illnesses, 570 hospitalizations, and two deaths in people with underlying conditions. [1] CDC cited a decline in new infections and recalled product past its dates. Print ended for this cluster. Do not print all foodborne risk gone.

The FDA investigation into how the parasite entered the supply remains open in Friday copy. [1] Ended is not a closed farm file. This lettuce cluster is not the unmerged measles ledger on another page. Print cyclospora ended. Leave measles unmerged.

Friday recap that treats one ended outbreak as a cleared summer is a feed, not Reuters. Print the lettuce cluster as over. Print the inquiry as not over.

Lettuce outbreaks end the way they begin: traced to a field, contained at packing. The FDA's open inquiry chases the how for next season. Friday closes the illnesses, not the questions.

Closed illnesses close; Friday closes. Closing is the update. Questions stay open.

CDC can retire a cluster without retiring a parasite. Two deaths with underlying conditions remain after new infections fall. Friday's public-health close is not a farm amnesty.

CDC closed the iceberg cluster at 12,883 illnesses after new infections fell. Two deaths among patients with underlying conditions stay in that wrap. Recalled heads are past their dates; how the parasite entered remains open. Ending this lettuce does not end foodborne risk.
Friday closed the lettuce cluster, not foodborne risk. How the parasite entered remains open. Recalled heads are past their dates.

How the parasite entered remains open. Recalled heads are past their dates. Friday's cyclospora file closed the lettuce cluster, not foodborne risk.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago