Eerie! Six in 10 chickens carry deadly disease that kills 100 people a year – study.

853 chickens have been tested as part of a year-long study of 4,000 birds, revealing that six out of 10 fresh chickens harbour a food poisoning bug that causes more than 100 deaths a year.

Campylobacter – the bug found in the chickens – causes sickness, diarrhoea, stomach cramps and fever in 280,000 people annually.

But the British Food Standards Agency (FSA) refused to out shops where campylobacter was found in raw poultry until they had “enough data to robustly compare levels”.