Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Bird Flu: Eat Chicken And Say Your Last Prayer

Go to Salad Ground (Garrison Street); pick up a piece of imported chicken and a few spices; cook them for a few minutes but with less heat and consume. Your post-mortem result may tell of a strange (well in Sierra Leone) disease popularly know as Bird Flu; the virulent H5N1 form of the flu or strain of avian influenza, which is essentially a disease of birds.

This is not to scare you; imported chickens are no longer safe to eat in a hurry - certain precautions are needed in the handling, processing of chickens before consumption. It is for instance advised that a chicken should be cooked above 90 degrees C. And the days when people eat raw flesh are over because it has been proven that this increases the chances of contracting deadly viruses.

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