More Than One Million Cases of Foodborne Salmonella, Resulting in 550 Deaths, Reported Each Year According to GIDEON Online

LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - June 12, 2008) - More than one million cases of foodborne salmonella are reported each year, accounting for 9.7 percent of all foodborne illnesses and 30.6 percent of all food-related deaths, according to GIDEON Online (www.gideononline.com), an online database of infectious disease information for medical professionals.

Specifically, foodborne salmonella resulted in 15,600 hospitalizations and 550 deaths, over the last year.

For more information on salmonella, Dr. Stephen Berger, MD, infectious disease expert, is available for interviews. Dr. Berger, cofounder and Medical Advisor for GIDEON, has published more than 180 articles and books, including "Introduction to Infectious Diseases" and "The Healthy Tourist." He is currently affiliated with the Tel Aviv Medical Center as Director of both Geographic Medicine and of Clinical Microbiology.

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