Eggs and poultry are safe?

While the bird flu is experiencing complicated developments and the risk of a pandemic coming up, many people question the safety of egg products as well as poultry meat. According to health experts, if the eggs and poultry meat are cooked thoroughly at a certain temperature, the user has nothing to worry about. The important thing to emphasize here is to cook.

According to scientists, the ability to bring influenza viruses in eggs and poultry meat is very low. Although thorough cooking is still an unproven advice for these products.

According to scientists and health experts, no cases have been infected with H5N1 ever since eating eggs or poultry meat. All cases of infection are caused by direct contact with live birds infected with this dangerous virus.

In the UK today, about 30 million eggs are consumed daily. The European Food Safety Authority has also made recommendations to consumers about the safety of poultry meat and eggs.

The H5N1 strain of avian influenza has killed about 60 people in Asia since 2003. Anyone can be infected with this dangerous virus if unfortunately exposed to previously infected poultry. . In poultry, H5N1 virus will follow the excrement, after some time it will dry up, dispersed into small particles like dust and will infect the human body through the respiratory tract. Subjects at high risk of infection are those who work in slaughtering or processing poultry meat. The World Health Organization recommends that people cook poultry at temperatures as low as 70 degrees to ensure safety.