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Originally Posted by spiderplant
"It is estimated that each year FBD [food-borne disease] causes approximately 5,000 deaths in the USA and 718 deaths in England and Wales" (Source: WHO)
So adjusting for population size, not much different.
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On the contrary, that death rate is quite significantly worse in the USA. If you scale up the England/Wales rate to the size of the USA's population it equates to a little under 4,000 deaths, which is 20% lower than the USA.