In a world where journalism was free of hype the above headline would have been atop the many stories this week relating to a press release by the CDC about food-borne illness.  The numbers are far less sensational than the headlines. The CDC report reviewed statistics about food-borne illnesses in 2009.  Overall there were 17,468 laboratory-confirmed food-borne infections in 2009.  What the CDC press release doesn’t mention is that this number has stayed about the same for several years.  (It ...