40,000 deaths from car a year hm.... lets see.
that's a 1 in 7500 people a year that dies from car related incidents in the USA.
This is a study that shows in a group study of 4264 children who got a CI.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa031101?siteid=nejm&keytype=ref&ijkey=FGbgCPw7gQwjk&#t=articleResults
26 of them got infected, 3 of them twice. one of them died.
19 out of the 29 of these cases were reported. (this makes one go 
)
So with your comparison... If everyone in America got a CI, there would be a higher rate of death than car related deaths.
*yawn*
