The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that Salmonella causes approximately 1.35 million illnesses, 26,500 hospitalizations, and 420 deaths in the United States every year.
Contaminated food plays a key role in the spread of several major pathogens, according to a Dutch source attribution study.
Scientists attributed cases of 26 foodborne pathogens in the Netherlands
After one of the most significant public health events in U.S. history, pasteurized milk became almost universally adopted. But there are hold-outs, and raw milk and raw milk products are responsible for human illnesses and deaths 161 years after pasteurization became available.
There was a decline in Campylobacter cases in England in 2025 while Salmonella, Listeria and E. coli O157 hardly changed compared to the year before.
Figures recently released by the