On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:05:17 -0500, Boron Elgar
> wrote:

>http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s785664.htm
>Food poisoning deaths may be wildly underestimated
>Monday, 17 February 2003
<..>
>The Danish researchers studied the medical history of 1,071 people who
>had died within a year of being infected with Salmonella,
>Campylobacter, Yersinia enterocolitica and Shigella.
<..>
>Deaths within the first year after infection were 2.2% in the people
>who had had food poisoning, compared to 0.7% in a control group of
>3,636 people.

Well, that's pretty incoherent. The study is obviously misrepresented
by the journalist here. One must seriously question if she has done
more than to read a oneliner harvested from the abstract, while
misunderstanding it.

How come you don't notice, Boron?