Reply #3: Risk of infection is low, and only for food preparers (not diners). [View All]

People who caught the bird flu from birds were spending LOTS of time in close contact with live (but sick) birds, such as the little girl who slept with ducks every other night.

Diners get cooked chicken feet. Eating is no more dangerous than eating any other cooked meat.

It's remotely possible that a food preparer might contract the bird flu from handling lots of uncooked feet from infected chickens. But he'd have to accumulate a certain amount of infected tissue first.

Unless people are powdering raw chicken feet and snorting lines in the bathroom, I don't see chicken feet playing much of a role.




Sounds like the officials are just ticked off that somebody is breaking their new rule.