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  • To this day I never thought about salmonella and salmon being linked in any way and I do enjoy puns and etymology

    It may be because I'm my language it's pronounced with a voiced 'l'. At least that's what I think.

    By the way it's called like that because one researcher that named the pathogen was Daniel Salmon. They named it the 'hog cholera disease' (because they thought mistakingly that it caused that). It was only later that somebody named after Salmon. Thus it has nothing to do with the fish at all.

  • I am not 100% sure, but salmonella does not live in the meat, it lives on the surface. If the surface was thermally processed and the salmonella killed, then it should be salmonella free. It just tastes badly, and there could be other things that are not salmonella but bad for you (I am not knowledgeable enough about this, so don't now for sure if there are).

    But this is why it is OK to eat medium rare stake and tuna tartar.

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