I’m an avid reader of food columns and local restaurant reviews. I follow a bunch of food writers’ RSS feeds and on twitter. When it comes to restaurant reviews It’s about knowing what places might be worth eating at, buzz-wise, not whether the food there is particularly good or bad. And often the writing is well done (Gael Greene and Frank Bruno are my favorites).  Former Chicago Sun-Times restaurant critic Pat Bruno, who was fired last month after cutbacks hit the print media company, discussed battling brain cancer.

Bruno, who has glioblastoma multiforme wrote in a Washington Post article about his battle that there is a possibility that his cancer is foodborne virus-related. His comment is that experts say “males eat more and increase their chance of eating something that is virus-infected.”

After spending a bit of time digging around for who the experts are and what the data says, I’ve come up empty-handed. I can’t find anything that points to foodborne viruses linked to this (although cytomegalovirus has been associated with glioblastoma multiforme, it is not transmitted through food, waters or animals).