To this day I never thought about salmonella and salmon being linked in any way and I do enjoy puns and etymology

It may be because I’m my language it’s pronounced with a voiced ‘l’. At least that’s what I think.

By the way it’s called like that because one researcher that named the pathogen was Daniel Salmon. They named it the ‘hog cholera disease’ (because they thought mistakingly that it caused that). It was only later that somebody named after Salmon. Thus it has nothing to do with the fish at all.