A team of researchers at the Otago University in New Zealand claims that a bacterium namely Campylobacteriosis has however been found to decline. But, the same has been the cause of several cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome in the nation, says a latest report.

It has been found by the report that the rate of risk of Campylobacteriosis is cutting by a considerable figure if considered for the country’s population as a whole though. It has been noted to have increased by an equally significant rate on individual basis. The researchers conducted a study and told that the bacteria has been increasing the risk of another disease, Guillain-Barré Syndrome or GBS.

While Campylobacteriosis causes a severe stomach infection that comes from poultry industry, GBS has been found to affect the whole nervous system, causing paralysis followed by permanent disability, told the researchers. They further avowed that GBS caused 3% deaths in its sufferers, whereas most of patients of GBS recover in weeks or months.

The team of researchers concluded after the scrutiny that while, there was a huge reduction in campylobacteriosis in 2006 as well as a notable fall in GBS. It has been increasing since then at individual level. And, the same is raising the risk of hospitalizations for GBS too by 320-folds.

As per Michael Baker, Associate Professor of public health at the university's Wellington campus, the nation is currently experiencing the largest rate of campylobacteriosis across the world. And, there is a huge need to bring the fatal virus to an end, whose main source is poultry.

Professor Nick Wilson’s stated that he is hoping that research would bring reforms in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and they would continue to lower campylobacter contamination levels in fresh poultry.