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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Raw egg *can* be contaminated with salmonella. Cooking kills salmonella. Therefore, the risk of contracting salmonella from eating raw egg is much higher versus eating cooked egg. However, the *probability* of contracting salmonella after eating any particular raw egg is still quite low, just not as low as it would be had you cooked the egg.