Thanks to Hero Guy for sending this story in. Fortunately, I don't have much of a sweet tooth, but it's still disturbing nonetheless.
It seems that a Tops Market in Cleveland, Ohio had a serial urinater in their employ. While we all pee, some more often than others, I think we can all agree that it's just plain rude to pee in cake batter (someone should remind him that a Urinal Cake is a sanitation device left in the bowl of a urinal, not what’s left in the bowl after you urinate).
Fortunately for the unwitting public, unless this gent has a raging urinary tract infection or kidney stones, it's highly unlikely that anything really pathogenic made its way from his urethra to your uvula. As Willie Bess, of the Cleveland Health Department, somewhat correctly attests, the baking temperature is sufficiently high to render pathogens safe. Living organisms, like bacteria, would certainly meet their "baker" in an oven; viruses would probably also be rendered pretty useless. I say somewhat correctly because there are greeblies out there worse than viruses, which have long been thought to be the most rudimentary organisms (there is still heated debate to this day over the classification of viruses as living or non-living organisms). Prions, however, are just snippets of protein, and that's what bacteria and viruses become in their non-pathogenic state...as such, a prion would emerge relatively unscathed.
So you say, Who cares?
Well, one of the most newsworthy prions in history has reared its ugly head in the US recently, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), AKA Mad Cow Disease. While human's aren't "infected" with Mad Cow, per se, we're susceptible to a variant, CJD, for which there is neither a treatment nor a cure. So, now that I've scared the bejeezus out of our Cleveland contingent, I'm here to put your mind at ease; nvCJD is not excreted in any fashion, so, unless the guy had it, opened his head, and wiped his brain through the batter with sufficient force so as to dislodge bits of it like little grey sprinkles, the most you're going to suffer is spontaneous vomiting. Not from any pathogen, but from the fact that you just had a nice slice of Yellow cake, when you in fact ordered the Angelfood.
Try the marble cake, it's to (not) die for...