These are the times that I appreciate the course I took in college - Microbiology. I may not be as well informed as I was years ago in the field of Microbiology, but at least I still have an idea of what the avian flu is about. The first time in years that I took an interest again in Microbiology was when the SARS virus came out.
The avian flu scare. The head of the Research Institute of Tropical Medicine is correct in reminding the people that the avian flu is not food-borne. The virus can only be transmitted by birds to humans through direct handling of live chickens infected with the strain H5N1. So we can eat as much chicken as we want, but to be safe it is advised to consume only properly cooked chicken di