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From a biological perspective, I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't get bird flu just from eating an infected animal... or at least not from the eating the commercially available parts (breast, wing, thigh, leg) that Americans tend to prefer. Things might get a little dicey if you decided to eat the bird's internal organs. I would assume that it's kinda like mad cow disease - even if contaminated beef does get into the U.S., we don't tend to eat the parts of the cow (brain, etc...) where the nasty lil' prion lives.
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