The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 276 No 7390 p257
4 March 2006

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Consumption of poultry safe

When poultry products are safely handled and properly cooked, humans are not at risk of acquiring H5N1 infection through food, according to the World Health Organization. Since December 2003, this virus is known to have infected 173 people and none of the infections has been linked to the consumption of properly cooked poultry or poultry products, it said.