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by Traubenfuchs 1176 days ago
How does it make sense for humans to get this flu from birds, become symptomatic, but not pass it on to at least their sexual/kissing partners?
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Most people have the boring kind of sex where you do not consume the flesh of your partner.
We don't catch bird flu from eating infected birds, we catch it from being exposed to live birds who are sick (or to their droppings, as I understand it).
Do you get bird flu from eating birds?

That doesn't make sense.

Does anyone eat raw birds?

Wouldn't you just get it from being around birds?

You would need to obtain a sufficient viral load in order to be infected. One or two copies won't do the job, you'd need to ingest infected material in some manner. Eye splash, breathe dust from cleaning a chicken house, or vicsera that harbor many copies of the virus. This is why we throw the guts out of most things before we continue preparation.

Imagine a bucket of raw inverted chicken lungs.

Ew.

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Hey, don't yuck their yum.
Because it takes an avian nasal mucosa to spread it. Human mucosa is ineffective at creating infectious droplets and aerosols for whatever reason.