[sjsdaiuasgdia]

Also worth noting that there can be incidents where a massive number of people are infected in a short span.

> with the largest sickening over 2,000 water frolickers in one go.

Lots of people experience isolated events of food-borne illnesses for a variety of reasons. But when a restaurant gets 2000 people sick in a short time frame, we shut it down...and correctly so!

The average annual rate is not terribly informative for making effective public health decisions because it smooths out most of the interesting bits.

[alex_c]

For public health decisions I agree, but I'm not making those decisions.

For private health decisions (should my family go to a splash pad or not) the average rate, or chance of infection from one visit relative to other activities, would be more relevant.

Still gross though!