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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A lot of people in this thread are talking about bacteria, but I’d just like to highlight that trichinosis is caused by a parasitic nematode – a type of worm. The points about moisture and salt and whatnot still stand, however!
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