What are the chances of getting salmonella from eggs?

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asked Jun 18, 2019 in Other- Health by Moukie (340 points)
What are the chances of getting salmonella from eggs?

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answered Jun 18, 2019 by Minty (141,500 points)
Your chances of getting salmonella from eggs is very low as in around a 1 or 2 percent chance of getting Salmonella from eating eggs.

Out of 20,000 eggs there's only 1 egg out of those 20,000 eggs that are sold everyday that could possibly be infected with Salmonella.

Also when cooking the eggs you kill off the Salmonella anyway so even if that one egg you got were to be infected with Salmonella your chances of getting infected with the Salmonella are slim to none.

Just be sure to cook the eggs all the way through and not leave them runny to kill off the Salmonella that could potentially be in the egg.

I've never gotten sick from Salmonella even when there were warnings about the eggs being sold being infected with Salmonella.

I always cook my eggs all the way through and never leave them runny.

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