Proper handling and thorough cooking can protect your family. Remember cooking destroys the bacteria, so avoid eating pink or raw looking poultry meat.
Salmonella enteritis is the strain of bacteria most likely to affect eggs.
Washing the eggs before cracking them does not ensure that they will be clean. Thorough cooking will eliminate your risk. Hospitals, nursing homes and restaurants use pasteurized eggs because this process kills bacteria. The E. coli on the surface of a steak is destroyed when cooked, and there is none in the rare inside, which is fine to eat. However, raw ground hamburger incorporates the surface bacteria inside, so hamburgers need to be cooked until they are well done.