how does raw egg give you salmonella, but you can eat a whole raw egg and be fine

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how does raw egg give you salmonella, but you can eat a whole raw egg and be fine

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It’s the number of “colony forming units” (CFU) of salmonella that can make you sick. 20,000 is the number of CFU’s of salmonella that has been determined to make you sick if you ingest it. If there are only a couple thousand CFU’s, you should be fine. But if there are 20,000 or more CFU’s, you can get sick.