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The uninvited dinner guest that turns potlucks into regret, one undercooked egg at a time.
means A genus of bacteria that causes food poisoning, usually from contaminated eggs, poultry, or meat, bringing on fever, cramps, and the kind of regret potlucks are famous for.
from Named not for a fish but for a man: Daniel Elmer Salmon, an American veterinary pathologist whose lab first isolated the bacterium in the late 1800s. The credit is a bit of a historical footnote mix-up — his assistant, Theobald Smith, did much of the actual work, but lab heads got naming rights in that era, so Salmon's name stuck to the genus, and later to every salmonella-tainted egg salad since.
- named after
- a vet named Salmon, not the fish
- favorite hideout
- raw poultry, eggs, and unwashed cutting boards
- survival trick
- hides inside chicken cells to dodge your immune system
- onset time
- symptoms hit 6 hours to 6 days later