If the Bird Flu struck the US and Canada, would you consider being a vegetarian?

[RACooper]

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
Can you catch the avian flu that way? I thought people contracted it from contact with living, infected birds who then spread it to other people.

Maybe AKA Monet can shed some light on this.

If that were true: that the spread of the avian flu was only linked to human proximity to living fowl... then the market demand for the meat would still mean that there is a risk - a risk heightened by the large populations of fowl raised solely for their meat.

However, biologically speaking viruses do remain active for a time (highly variable depending on strain) even after the death of the carrier - but I'll let a specialist delve into the specifics of that...