Roger Millin wrote: > I would like to know why, when Avian Flu was first spoken about (last > year sometime?) we were warned that it was a doomsday scenario, that > it wouldn't take much for it to mutate into a deadly human form, that > there would be tens of thousands of deaths, that it was > uncontrollable.......the next plague...........and yet now
What I'd like someone to ask is how everyone and his uncle is saying that there is no risk buying birds for food. The logic given is that even if the bird was infected, as long as it is cooked well, the cooking process will kill the virus. Hhhm. Excuse me, but surely the danger of an infected bird is going to be the handling BEFORE it is cooked. And there is more handling of the bird before it is cooked....surely anyone handling an infected bird (farmer, slaughterer, packer, packer, butcher and purchaser, etc) is at risk of at least spreading the disease before it is cooked? -- Will Chapman Save Our Waterways www.SaveOurWaterways.org.uk
