Why is it recommended not to eat raw/undercooked pork but it’s okay to eat cured pork?

Question

I always hear that pork has to be thoroughly cooked to prevent things like trichinosis and other parasitic infections. However there’s a lot of types of cured pork commonly eaten, right? Here in Spain everyone eats ham, lomo, chorizo and other stuff that is cured but essentially not cooked, and the few cases of trichinosis that happen are all from people eating game they hunt themselves. Is pork really dangerous?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I saw a guy die in the ICU because he had worms in his brain and liver after eating under cooked pork.