[sefarkas]

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?

[neverdem]

Aren't there more important things to ponder?

Not particularly, if your interested in microbiology and drug resistant microbes. That's why the CDC has the link in comment 1. I guess you didn't read it. Here's another. [Life-threatening infections with a new strain of Clostridium difficile]

[Judith Anne]

C-diff is a lot more prevalent than that, and people die every day from it.