Eli5 why do different meats need to be cooked to different temperatures?

Question

I thought the purpose of cooking meat was to kill bacteria and harmful things like E coli and salmonella, but don’t these things all die at the same temperature?

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

It’s not just the bacteria. Before animal feed was medicated (UK) meat like pork had to be cooked to a higher temperature to kill the worms typically found in pigs and some other game meats (still a problem).