The statistics on this disease make you wonder that details that go into this disease. The Trouble With Chicken states that in just over a year about 600 people were diagnosed with Salmonella. There are different rates to look at when it comes to epidemiology. When looking at statistics you have to look at the number of new occurrences of an event within a specified population during a specified period, which is the incidence rate, as well as the total number of cases within a specific population as a specific time which is the prevalence rate (Weitz 19-20). “FoodNet reports that the annual incidence of Salmonella in the United States was 15.2 illnesses per 100,000 individuals (CDC). The Trouble With Chicken talks about how ¼ of chicken parts nationally were contaminated with salmonella and ¾ plants were producing salmonella (Fanning). Two terms are, morbidity and mortality. Morbidity is related to the symptoms, damages and sicknesses. When mortality is the number of deaths (Weitz 20). Salmonella has caused 19,000 hospitalizations and about 380 deaths just within the United States