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>>18667997
When steaks are raw on the inside, it's usually fine because the inside part hasn't been exposed to the elements, but there is no such guarantee with ground beef.

One of the first things we did in microbiology class in college was take a swab of "fresh" ground beef from the grocery store (purchased that day) and cultured it in a petri dish. After a couple days, it was a literal forest of bacteria colonies. We took swabs of various other things, too, including toilets in the public university restrooms, which didn't grow anywhere close to the kind of microflora as the ground beef. You really should NOT treat ground beef like a steak. Cook it thoroughly.