Salmonella, the leading cause of food poisoning-related death, can survive most common egg cooking methods—including scrambled, over-easy, and sunny side up. Cross-contamination onto fingers, utensils, or kitchen surfaces may pose an additional threat.
Avoiding pork tapeworm parasites (cysticercosis) is not as easy as just avoiding pork.
Neurocysticercosis, infection with pork tapeworm larvae brain parasites, is an increasingly serious public health problem in the United States, potentially causing headaches, dizziness, seizures, other neurological disorders, and sudden death.
The discovery of infectious hepatitis E virus in retail pork products may help explain the purported association between liver failure and pork consumption.
