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“I asked Price how E. coli from supermarket chicken could cause urinary infections. He explained that, as with any other bacteria, E. coli ST131-H22 doesn’t survive proper cooking. But as I noted in a recent piece on salmonella, cross-contamination—say, failing to wash a knife or even your hands properly after contact with raw chicken, a common kitchen blunder—is a way for germs to move from your meat into your mouth. The ST131-H22 strain is harmless to the digestive tract, Price explained, so it doesn’t trigger what we normally think of as food poisoning. But when it gets into the urinary tract—which for anatomical reasons happens much more frequently with women than with men—it can cause infections.”
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2018/08/urinary-tract-infection-chicken-ecoli-poultry-antibiotics/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=food-for-thought-2018-09-02

A new study says thousands of people a year could be getting UTIs from raw chicken.Painful peeing? Watch what you cook.