A report released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gives new meaning to the idea that certain foods are bad for you.
The Surveillance for Foodborne Disease Outbreaks — United States, 2008 report in this week′s edition of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report reveals that tens of thousand of people became ill from foodborne diseases 2008 -- the most recent year for which data is finalized. The 1,034 foodborne disease outbreaks that year caused 23,152 cases of illness, 1,276 hospitalizations and 22 deaths.