The US Centers for Disease Control said Thursday that infections caused by contaminated food are up 15 percent across the United States.<br />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.<br />It was followed by salmonella, with roughly 8,600 cases.<br />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.<br />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."
