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Other foods that sometimes become contaminated with E. coli bacteria include unpasteurized milk and cheese, unpasteurized juices, alfalfa and radish sprouts, lettuce, spinach, and water. However, any food is at risk of becoming contaminated with E. coli through cross-contamination. One can also get E. coli bacteria from contact with feces of infected animals or people.
People of any age can become sick from STEC. Children younger than 5 years and adults aged 65 and older are more likely than others to develop serious illness
I eat bloody rare beef all the time. I haven't died yet. You'll be fine.
If you washed it down with enough beer, the alcohol and fizzy bubbly goodness would take care of any potential bacteria and pathogens anyways. Of course I'm not a doctor, that's just my personal unscientific belief.
You can get E Coli from plenty of other foods. Hell, you can apparently get it from romaine lettuce. It's still pretty ahem ... uncommon (despite what the news media and social media would have you believe).
I think what you're most in danger of at this point stressing yourself out to the point of making yourself sick.
Believe me, I won’t let that happen. I’m honestly not all that worried anymore, and I do know how truly uncommon it is to get violently ill, let alone E. coli, from a rare burger, especially at a decent place. I feel like if I was to get regular food poisoning, I would’ve felt it already, being that it’s been almost 6 hours. E. Coli wouldn’t come up for a few days, but I do doubt that I caught it. The burger also wasn’t red, it was pink, just more so than I had had before and cooler in temperature.
In a modern state, it is very unlikely you will have any ill effects from eating commercially marketed meat that was handles professionally, even if completely raw. The risk is vanishingly close to zero.
My oldest brother and father would eat sandwiches of raw store bought ground beef, thick slice of raw onion, salt and pepper. I really don't think you have anything to worry about with that burger. My wife and I eat beef tataki and carpoccio. Haven't had any issues.
Your worry & nerves over this, is worse for you, than a few bites of meat.
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