scary or wary of the flu?

ha! i knew it! as soon as news of the bird (avian) flu detected in gombak and setapak spread, this type of news will followed – chicken sales drop, or you see less people in your fav KFC restaurant, breakfast of half-boiled egg not laku anymore and so on.

what? people getting scary or wary?

what? you mean prevention is better than cure, so let’s get wary?

what? but haven’t you heard of doc’s famous line “eat first die later”? heh.

what? are you ignorant or what? don’t you know that you can’t get the bird flu from consuming cooked chicken?

“avian flu is not transmitted via properly cooked food, even if these food have been contaminated by the virus.”
see? WHO says so? oh, i meanWHO says so. period.

to continue reading, please click on ‘more’ below.

how do people get infected then?
Direct contact with infected poultry, or surfaces and objects contaminated by their faeces, is presently considered the main route of human infection. To date, most human cases have occurred in rural or periurban areas where many households keep small poultry flocks, which often roam freely, sometimes entering homes or sharing outdoor areas where children play. As infected birds shed large quantities of virus in their faeces, opportunities for exposure to infected droppings or to environments contaminated by the virus are abundant under such conditions. Moreover, because many households in Asia depend on poultry for income and food, many families sell or slaughter and consume birds when signs of illness appear in a flock, and this practice has proved difficult to change. Exposure is considered most likely during slaughter, defeathering, butchering, and preparation of poultry for cooking.
taken from WHO.

continue to read others F&Q in the information-rich website of WHO. another good website to find out more about the avian flu is the center for disease control and prevention.

why people want to stop eating chicken then? heh. i think people are more scary than wary. scary they’ll kick the bucket if they eat chicken. pity the poultry traders in penang wet markets. due to this mentality of people, their business drop. they should listen to the agriculture and agro-based industry minister, muhyiddin yassin when he said that chickens from outside klang valley are safe to eat.

well, as WHO had pointed out how the avian flu is spread, even eating chickens in the klang valley won’t made you kick the bucket, but humans being what they are, can’t blame them for getting scary and wary!

now, let’s see…. tomorrow i’m going to kenny rogers roasted chicken, saturday to the chicken rice shop and sunday ta pau some KFC back home.