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by onlyrealcuzzo 1176 days ago
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?

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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.