Is the Avain Flu gone for good? or will it make a comeback?

Question

Can we all eat chicken without any fears whatsoever?

Answer 1

Hi

Where did you get the idea that it was gone at all... Yikes

Its not at all gone... They currently monitor Alaskan birds and Migratory waterfowl for it as they feel Alaska may be the first hot spot when it hits the US.

The loger it stays out there the more it will re organize and it could become less of a risk to humans that the originally thought Pandemic.
The threat is still alive and well though....

Chicken however if from the US is just as safe as it ever was, provided you cook it and use raw meat handling procedures.

Aisan communities and places Like Vietman still have cases, and who knows how many are not even diagnosed over there.. The medical care is not what ours is you know...
Good Luck

Wismom

Answer 2

Avian Flu is not gone. It is still a serious threat to one of the most important food items in the world...cheap, easily grown and mass-produced. China has had only a minor problem, but Thailand killed 23,000,000 chickens, and India has killed even more. Now the virus has spread to Africa. The next pandemic may break-out in the US. Viral diseases mutate faster than research can produce vaccines, and faster than we can innoculate against that disease. Compare Avian Flu to human influenza and the frequent re-occurence...the Spanish Flu killed about 16,000,000 people in the 1916 era, and subsequent epidemics have killed many more. The virus can be spread by chickens, ducks, and virtually most birds, and the elimination of the disease would require the destruction of all, including all migratory birds. Some researchers have considered using gamma radiation to sterilize the meat, but the results were not successful. It is not gone, but neither is E. coli, and a rampant viral infection of freshwater fish in the northeast of the US....best suggestion....don't eat.

Answer 3

It will make a comeback. It always does.

It's the same old bad virus that goes and rearranges its antigenicity and comes up in an epidemic every 2-4 years.

You can still eat chicken. I've been eating chicken all throughout this whole bird flu thing. Good cooking will destroy the virus.

The only thing I've really gone off has been the beef from the UK. But Australia makes enough of its own beef, even if our farmers are having a difficult time of it.

Answer 4

no one EVER got bird flu from eating chicken! It is not gone at all, it is just that the media has not been constantly putting it on the news and trying to get everyone paranoid and frantic, so people have calmed down about it..and that is way you have not heard about it lately, people are finding plenty of other news to become obsessed with.

Answer 5

It never really disappeared. In fact a boy just died this week from avian flu in Indonesia. But don't say no to chicken yet, most of the victims that died from this flu died from close contact with live chickens and not from eating them. Fully-cooked chicken pose no risk whatsoever in terms of avian flu.

Answer 6

you can eat a chicken just don't go kissing one. it's not gone but it's out of the media for now. the media needs stories like that to make a hype and to get more attention from us. remember the summer of the shark? i believe it was 2001 or 2002 but the number of deaths from shark attacks was nothing unusual that year they just needed something exciting to report on.