Oh no! I just finished a 10-day course of Clindamycin (sp?) prescribed by my dentist for an abscessed tooth. I am still eating lots of yogurt to restock my gut with good bacteria, but that c-diff stuff sounds like it's impervious to everything. Oh boy, what have I gotten myself into this time?
Get a grip. Who posts this stuff?
Population of Canada: 32,805,041 (July 2005 est.)
Population of U.S. 295,734,134 (July 2005 est.)
(
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html)
I'll leave out Mexico to be conservative.
33/(32x10^6 + 296x10^6) =~ 1E-7 (one in 10 million) since 2003, 8 died ... one in a hundred million per year
Aren't there more important things to ponder?