Avian Flu Protect Yourself from the Virus

Avian influenza is also a contagious viral flu disease of a similar nature to the coronavirus, says Maneka Sanjay Gandhi. Cooking contaminated chicken will not save you from infection because so many people and you handle the uncooked bird.

- Maneka Sanjay Gandhi

By the time you read this, lakhs of chickens will have died of avian flu. Some would have died naturally. Others will have been beaten to death or strangled. How many do you think will be buried or burnt? Very few. Most of them will land on your plate, sold at reduced prices by the poultries.

The newspapers have repeatedly told you that bird flu makes no difference to the quality of chicken you eat and as long as you cook it, you will come to no harm. This is utter rubbish and it is being doled out by two interested parties: the poultry industry themselves so that they do not go completely bankrupt and you continue to buy the diseased dead birds. The second is the government itself: the Animal Husbandry Ministries who are solely invented to see that India has more poultries, more slaughterhouses. The more animals are eaten, the more successful the Ministry is. Their mandate is NOT sick people. Their mandate is to see that people keep buying chickens diseased or not. The mandate for looking after sick people belongs to the Ministry of Health. And never the twain shall meet.

Every article will tell you that no humans have ever had avian flu. And that it can’t spread from bird to human. This is not true.