Preventing Campylobacteriosis

You can prevent campylobacteriosis by:

• washing hands carefully
• keeping your food preparation areas clean
• avoiding unpasteurized milk
• cooking your food at the appropriate temperatures
• being careful when dealing with animals
• using caution when swimming
  

Minimizing Your Risk

Wash your hands

• Wash hands after handling uncooked poultry.
  
  
• Wash hands after using the bathroom and changing diapers, and before handling or eating any food.
  
  
• Make sure that persons with diarrhea, especially children, wash their hands carefully and frequently with soap to reduce the risk of spreading the infection.
  
  
• Always wash hands after contact with farm animals, pets, animal feces, and animal environments.
  
  
• Hand Hygiene
  Wash Your Hands!
  
  

Keep your food preparation areas clean

• Keep raw meat and poultry separate from produce and other foods when shopping for and storing groceries.
  
  
• Wash hands, cutting boards, countertops, cutlery, and utensils after handling uncooked poultry.
  
  
• Cross-Contamination
  Food and kitchen tools and surfaces may become contaminated from raw food products.
  

Avoid unpasteurized foods

• Avoid unpasteurized (raw) milk and foods made from unpasteurized milk
  

Cook your food at the appropriate temperatures

• Thoroughly cook poultry to destroy the bacteria. Poultry should be cooked until it is no longer pink in the middle.
  
  
• Storage and Cooking Temperatures
  Learn more about storage and cooking temperatures
  

Be careful when dealing with animals

• Always wash hands after contact with farm animals, pets, animal feces, and animal environments.
  
  
• CDC: Healthy Pets Healthy People
  Protect yourself against getting Campylobacter from animals.

Use caution when swimming

• Avoid swallowing lake or pool water while swimming.
  
  
• Anyone with a diarrheal illness should avoid swimming in public pools or lakes, sharing baths with others, and preparing food for others.
  
  
• CDC: Healthy Swimming
  Contains information on recreational waterborne illnesses.

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