bird flu protection

There is no need to get so panick about bird flu as there are some protective measures against it.They are as follows.

Avoid all direct contact with poultry, including touching well-appearing, sick, or dead chickens and. Avoidplaces, such as poultry farms and bird markets, where live poultry are raised or kept, and avoid handling surfaces contaminated with poultry feces or secretions.
• As with other infectious illnesses, one of the most important preventive practices is careful and frequent handwashing. Cleaning your hands often, using soap and water (or waterless alcohol-based hand rubs when soap is not available and hands are not visibly soiled), removes potentially infectious material from your skin and helps prevent disease transmission.
• Handwashing is especially important when preparing raw poultry for cooking (including during cooking classes).
• Influenza viruses are destroyed by heat; therefore, as a precaution, all foods from poultry, including eggs and poultry blood, should be thoroughly cooked . For more information on bird flu you can visit different sites.