I think I saw the “100 cases in 40 years” originally in the Wikipedia article on it, can’t find it there now though.
Here’s a CDC article on it describing its rarity:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6038a1.htm
Appreciate the refs. The GOP should hammer 0bama with this, but they are morons and won’t. But I repeat myself.