Table 2.

Illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths in reported poultry-associated^* foodborne disease outbreaks with a confirmed pathogen, United States, 1998–2012

Pathogen	Illnesses n (% of total)	Hospitalizations n (% of total)	Deaths n (% of total)
Salmonella enterica	2614 (50)	425 (80)	4 (20)
Clostridium perfringens	1764 (33)	8 (2)	0 (0)
Norovirus	191 (4)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Staphylococcus aureus	133 (3)	19 (4)	0 (0)
Listeria monocytogenes	127 (2)	45 (8)	16 (80)
Bacillus cereus	31 (1)	1 (0)	0 (0)
Campylobacter spp.	81 (2)	5 (1)	0 (0)
Other†	325 (6)	28 (5)	0 (0)
Total	5266 (100)	531 (100)	20 (100)

^*Either poultry was identified as the contaminated food or ingredient or all ingredients in the implicated food belonged to the poultry category.

^†Includes: Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157, Shigella sonnei, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, multiple pathogens, and other bacterial pathogens