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Anonymous
If you mean salmonella, it is a bacterium that causes one of the most common intestinal infections--food poisoning--in the United States
see: http://www.about-salmonella.com
Wiki User
From the Wikipedia: "About 142,000 (reported) Americans are infected each year with Salmonella Enteritidis from chicken eggs, and about 30 die." So the answer seems to be yes, although the risk isn't very high.