Salmonella Puts Family Mortgage At Risk, But There is A Miracle on the Blog
Second in the world only to China's melamine scandal, Salmonella was the top food-borne illness story in the United States in 2008.
Salmonella Saintpaul in tomatoes—wait—peppers. A final count of 1,442 ill in 43 states, D.C., and Canada, and those are the confirmed illnesses. Using CDC math - which estimates that for every documented case of salmonella in the US, another 38.5 go unreported - the total number sickened was probably closer to 50,000. In an outbreak that stretched for months without a smoking tomato,
Now how's the salmonella story linked to the top story of them all in 2008---the mortgage meltdown? Through one family's story, whose bread winner was struck down by salmonella, putting the family mortage in peril. Go here for the touching story.
