Significant Digits for Friday, March 10, 2017

More than a dozen recalls A [FiveThirtyEight]( email [Significant Digits]( Significant Digits for Friday, March 10, 2017 By [Blythe Terrell]( You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. Walt Hickey is still recovering from all that nonsense at the Oscars. Blythe Terrell is filling in. More than a dozen recalls Listeria, an infection that causes food poisoning, has been showing up in a lot of cheese recently. There’s been more than a dozen recalls, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports six people have been hospitalized, including two who died. [[STAT](, [Reuters](] 23 spacecrafts That’s how many Mars-bound crafts have succeeded, out of 52 attempts. Mars doesn’t make things easy for us, but we love it anyway — which is why you should check out all of FiveThirtyEight’s [Earth to Mars]( series. And while you’re at it, vote on [the coolest Mars stuff](. [[FiveThirtyEight](] 27 percent The share of President Trump’s appointees so far who are women, according to a Bloomberg analysis. The Commerce, Energy and Treasury departments are particularly dude-heavy, but the split was close to even at State and Health and Human Services. [[Bloomberg](] $854,000 in damage Radioactive boars, contaminated as a result of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in 2011, are causing havoc in parts of Japan — they’ve done about $854,000 in agricultural damage in Fukushima prefecture. Officials are even worried that the boars will attack people who are returning home to towns that were evacuated. So, that’s horrifying. [[The New York Times](] 18 million children The number of Americans under 18 who live with at least one immigrant parent, according to the Migration Policy Institute. [[Quartz](] $650 million Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration has pledged $650 million to fund global reproductive rights and health efforts over a three-year period. [[CBC](, h/t [@therealjordancr](] If you see a significant digit in the wild, send it to [@Kara_Chin](. --------------------------------------------------------------- The Morning Story [TrumpBeat: How To Judge Trump]( [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Share [Facebook]([Twitter]([Email](mailto:?subject=I%20thought%20you’d%20like%20this%20article%20from%20FiveThirtyEight&body= [FiveThirtyEight] [ESPN]( [Unsubscribe]( Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 147 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY 10023.