The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has urged people to ensure that chicken is thoroughly cooked following the detection of Campylobacter jejuni and norovirus in poultry samples amid the ongoing Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) outbreak.

Recently, the ICMR-National Institute of Virology (NIV) tested 106 poultry faecal and cloacal swab samples. Of the 66 tested for Campylobacter jejuni, 23 were positive, while five of the 60 samples tested for norovirus were also positive. The NIV has submitted its findings to the animal husbandry department’s Western Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, with further testing still underway.