The impression you got is, well, somewhat distorted. While 48 million are estimated to get sick from foodborne diseases annually, only 128,000 are hospitalized [0]; while the ratio between 513 sick in the Chipotle outbreaks to the 48 million annual sick from food borne diseases is miniscule (on the order of 1 in 100,000), the ratio between even the 20 hospitalized (of 53 sick) in the <i>E. coli</i> outbreaks in the whole set of Chipotle outbreaks to the 128,000 hospitalized annually from foodborne diseases is (while still small, by itself) a lot bigger than the ratio of the Chipotle-sick to the annual total sick (1 in 6,000 instead of 1 in 100,000).<p>(Also, the annual total sick-from-foodborne-illness count is an <i>estimate</i>, the sick-from-the-Chipotle-outbreak count is <i>confirmed</i>.)<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;foodsafety&#x2F;foodborne-germs.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cdc.gov&#x2F;foodsafety&#x2F;foodborne-germs.html</a>