However, properly cooking chicken, pasteurizing milk, and chlorinating drinking water will kill the bacteria. Complications are relatively rare, but infections have been associated with reactive arthritis, hemolytic uremic syndrome , and following septicemia, infections of nearly any organ. Fatalities are rare in healthy individuals and usually occur in cancer patients or in the otherwise debilitated. Only 20 reported cases of septic abortion induced by C. jejuni have been recorded in the literature. Meningitis, recurrent colitis, acute cholecystitis and Guillain-Barre syndrome are very rare complications.
Isolation can take several days to a week.
Several small outbreaks have been reported among children who were taken on a class trip to a dairy and given raw milk to drink. An outbreak was also associated with consumption of raw clams. The dairy processed surplus raw milk for the school, and this milk had a high somatic cell count. Cows from the herd supplying the dairy had C. jejuni in their feces. Although other Campylobacter spp.