CDC Reports Sharp Jump In Food-Borne Illnesses Across US

The US Centers for Disease Control said Thursday that infections caused by contaminated food are up 15 percent across the United States.

Campylobacter is an infection caused by eating raw or under-cooked poultry.

It was the most common foodborne illness reported.

With more than 9,700 cases.

It was followed by salmonella, with roughly 8,600 cases.

Shiga toxin-producing E.

Coli, or STEC, with 3,100 or so cases, and shigella, with more than 2,400, rounded out the top four.

The CDC's report suggests the rise in infections from food is a sign that "progress in controlling major foodborne pathogens in the United States has stalled."