Winner, Winner- Chicken Dinner?

Now our chicken is in danger?

I admit it, I love Chick-fil-A. It is far from my home so I don’t get there that often. But it’s my favorite. And as someone who tries to stay on a protein diet, chicken is a staple.

So when there were rumors of the Avian Flu decimating chicken populations in Europe, I seriously could not worry about it. I mean, really, one more pandemic to worry about? I can’t even deal with Covid!!

According to the Washington Post:

Poultry operations in Kentucky and Virginia were confirmed to have birds infected with a highly lethal form of avian flu, federal agriculture officials said Monday, days after a flock of turkeys in Indiana tested positive, raising worries about a wider outbreak in the country.

The most recently identified infections occurred at a Tyson Foods commercial broiler in Fulton County, Ky., that has 240,000 chickens, and in a backyard flock of mixed species in Fauquier County, Va. Kentucky officials said they were also waiting for the results of tests on a flock of turkeys in Webster County.

And surprisingly, they say Avian Flu doesn’t pose a public health risk, however:

Avian influenza doesn’t pose a public health risk to humans, U.S. agriculture officials said, so long as poultry and eggs are properly…