Oct 24, 2005
Avian Flu - How Worried Should I Be?
Many customers have called our office and asked, “how worried should I be about avian flu? Should I still be eating chicken?”: There are two areas of concern. One is the H5N1 avian flu as reported in the media – a disease affecting birds with high mortality and which very rarely infects humans causing similarly high mortality. The second concern is the possibility of a mutated avian flu spreading from human to human. The first concern – the chances of the average Malaysian being infected by avian flu is very slim. If we were to look at the situation objectively, in spite of millions of...