why can we eat egg yolks ‘raw’ but not chicken?

Question

Obviously I understand the risk of salmonella, but why isn’t it also in the yolks? Is salmonella like ecoli where it comes from something else?

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Theoreticaly, as long as you kept the entrails of a chicken intact during the slaughter process, you could eat it completely raw as long as it wasn’t sick because the bacteria that make you sick from chicken lives in the gut. Chickens are small animals and food processors only have a few seconds to process each chicken so it’s not unlikely to have meat contaminated with salmonella. As long as the chicken doesn’t have an infection that affects it’s reproductive organs the chances of bacterial presence inside the eggs are pretty much nil.