Bird Flu...

[sandyRoe]

Is it safe to continue to eat poultry?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10001020/Bird-Flu-discovered-at-Suffolk-poultry-farm.html

[Georgiesmum]

Yes, of course. Dont panic!

[McMouse]

No problem. Storey has been over egged.

[Jubz]

I would have thought as long as you wash your hands thoroughly after handling poultry and cook it properly, then there shouldn't be a problem.

[jim360]

Yes.

[aelmpvw]

if you're buying processed meat it probably isn't poultry anyway

[mrs_overall]

Clucking hell, not another bird flu scare

[jake-the-peg]

Bird flu is very dangerous but at the moment you can only contract it from direct contact with the birds - particularly I think with their droppings - so it's only really a threat to people working in the poultry industry.

The fear is that one day the current strain might mutate to be transmissable from human to human which would be a major health panic.

It's believed that the great flu epidemic after WWI was an Avian flu mutation of that type.

How probable is such a mutation? - nobody knows