Industrial poultry farming drives 100-fold rise in Campylobacter spread: Study

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Commercial poultry farms now hold billions of chickens, creating a vast habitat where bacteria can move, mix and adapt.

An analysis by the University of Oxford found that industrial poultry production has increased the movement of Campylobacter over 100 times, allowing strains associated with wild birds to circulate widely among farmed chickens.

Campylobacter is the world's most common bacterial cause of diarrhea.

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