Contracting through meat The text says that well cooked meat poses no danger however at least one or two cases I believe in China s Hunan province have been documented of individuals apparently children here contracting and dying from the avian flu after eating the meat of infected birds What therefore is the risk when eating chicken or other bird meatsin scientifically controlled well cooked meat the risk may be low but in practice is the risk high Can we indicate this one way or the other in the text