date:May 19, 2015
s from the nine foodborne germs it tracks. Salmonella and Campylobacter were by far the most common accounting for about 14,000 of the 19,000 infections reported.
We're cautiously optimistic that changes in food safety practice are having an impact in decreasing E.coli and we know that without all the food safety work to fight Salmonella that more people would be getting sick with Salmonella than we are seeing now, said Robert Tauxe, M.D., deputy director of CDC's Division of Foodborne Waterbor