bird flu

[stylinsam]

can i still eat eggs and chicken or should i be wary of it ?

[Ethel]

And long as you buy from from a reputable store and not from the back of a lorry or a man in the pub you'll be fine.

[stylinsam]

thanks for that ethel

[chazza]

You cannot get bird flu from eating eggs or chicken. Flu is a virus and cannot survive on a dead chicken

[nickmo]

Where are you thinking of buying your poultry?

There is no recorded case of H5N1 bird flu in the domestic flock in the UK. Eggs, poultry meat and poultry products are perfectly safe to eat and the recent blatant profiteering by Waitrose to state that their '..poultry is not sourced form Scotland so is safe to eat...' is a pathetic mis-information campaign that exploits consumers.

Waitrose are due to open in Edinburgh fairly soon - and as local sourcing is one of the key components of their buying policy - where are they going to get their poultry products from when they do open???

The regretable deaths from bird flu that have occured to date have been largely in countries where the handling of infected birds in unsanitary conditions is commonplace - children throwing chicken heads around, or families living in the same rooms literally, as the flock, which leads to transfer of the disease either through inhaling infeected faeces or through direct contact with infected blood.

You are not exposed to bird flu in normal contact with poultry products, and through cooking - which should be the norm anyway - prevents possible infection.

As above the flu, which is a gastric flu not a respiratory one, can not survive the cooking process, even if it was in poultry.

France and Germany have on-going restrictions regarding the movement of folws and there are still culls in Pakistan and a couple of other countries to prevent further outbreaks, but in the UK we have no H5N1 bird flu.

[d0gsb0dy]

Quote:
Your chances of winning the National Lottery are
about one in 14 million. Your chances of catching
bird flu are more like one in 100 million, even if
we had H5N1 among the chicken population.

Sir David King, the government�s chief scientific adviser.