Indeed. Botulism is one thing that scares the bejeezus out of me (it's up there with rabies in the dark place in my mind where I keep things like that), but it

Indeed. Botulism is one thing that scares the bejeezus out of me (it's up there with rabies in the dark place in my mind where I keep things like that), but it's vanishingly unlikely to occur in this context. I'd hazard a guess that about zero of those 3618 total cases were related to the consumption of food that was preserved through fermentation.