Food-borne illness linked to poultry, seafood on the rise
Cook it, clean up well after it: Uncooked poultry is a common source of Campylobacter , a food-borne pathogen on the rise in the government's latest survey of food-borne illnesses. ( Cameron Spencer / February 20 , 2013 ) Food-borne illness An increasing proportion of Americans made ill by food-borne pathogens in 2012 suffered from the effects of bacteria often found in uncooked poultry and in seafood from warm coastal waters, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday. Among the food-borne illnesses tracked in 10 U.S. monitoring sites, the incidence of illness attributed to the bacterium Campylob...