It's always interesting when American media plays food poisoning as "just one of those relatable things". It's really quite rare in Europe: you might expect per

It's always interesting when American media plays food poisoning as "just one of those relatable things". It's really quite rare in Europe: you might expect perhaps a bad case only a small handful of times in your life, unless you regularly eat raw shellfish or something. The reporting rates seem to agree: roughly 1 case per 30 people per year in the UK (recently doubled due to be research, actually). Meanwhile the US comes in with 1 in 6. Obviously the reporting methodologies will be different, so those figures are not directly comparable, but the media attitude seems a little indicative.