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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Salmonella is a bacteria that makes you sick. In developed countries, there is a lot of effort to keep it out of the food, and 99.9% of the raw eggs will not have it. But system fails sometimes, so there is a small chance that raw egg will have it. More so if you get eggs from somebody keeping chickens in their backyard rather than a properly licensed and inspected farm.

So if you eat raw eggs, you run a small risk of getting salmonella, as well as other infections that could come in eggs. If you do it all the time, you increase chances of getting it eventually.