I read an article the other day about Russian soldiers contracting anthrax after being ordered to dig defenses in soil where Ukrainians had buried diseased cows. I wonder if this is worse than being irradiated while bivouacked near the Chernobyl nuclear station… 
Before I started college in 1979, I was waiting on tables in a 24/7 restaurant in Minneapolis. A South Asian gentleman would invariably come in around 05:00 to order a breakfast that included chicken “cooked very rare.” I couldn’t help wondering if this was healthy or not, and why he never got sick if it wasn’t.