Eli5 why do you need to cook chicken fully through but duck is best cooked to medium rare?

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Eli5 why do you need to cook chicken fully through but duck is best cooked to medium rare?

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Chickens are raised on factory farms where it’s really hard to avoid dirty, unclean conditions. In these conditions salmonella can easily spread. Ducks aren’t usually raised this way so salmonella is significantly less of a risk. But, it’s still a small risk.