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?
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Raw food can have microbes living in it.
Those microbes might be harmful in some cases.
You can kill many of those microbes in various ways. Cooking is one way. Curing is another. In some cases fermentation works too. I think sometimes smoking and drying can work too.
In various ways, this applies to most foods, pork is not special here.
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