I feel sorry for my local okonomiyaki place where business has dropped 60% because of the avian flu and dead crows on the news 24/7. Hell, eggs are now 99yen and less in the stores now (10-egg carton in Japan). You can't even get sick from eating PROSSIBLY virus-exposed chicken meat and eggs. Sheesh.
Cooking chicken at 75 C for 1 minute kills bird flu virusMedical News Today, UK - 11 March
The Infectious Disease Surveillance Center of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases said Tuesday the avian influenza virus can be destroyed by cooking chicken meat for at least one minute at a temperature of 75 C or higher.
The center added that there was no reason to be overly concerned by the recent bird flu epidemic because no infection from eating virus-infected chicken meat and eggs has been reported.