Is "adopting a vegetarian diet", the best solution for swine flu, bird flu and similar food borne diseases?

According to the CDC, swine flu and the current swine-bird-human mosaic virus are not spread by eating pork. And WHO also says that bird flu can't be spread by eating poultry. I'm assuming that it's also not spread by cannibalism.

Only if you want to risk lowering your immune system for something that won't protect you from swine and bird flu considering THEY ARE NOT FOOD BORNE DISEASES. Eating poultry or pork has absolutely NO EFFECT on whether or not you'll catch those strains of INFLUENZA. Unless someone infected sneezes or licks your food before you eat it.It doesn't just have "flu like symptoms.

" It is the FLU. Just a different strain of the virus.It's people getting the facts crossed like this that causes a panic and makes a bigger deal out of something when it doesn't need to be.

The short answer is no. Remember when spinach and lettuce were recalled because they were contaminated with salmonella? The swine flu could just as easily be spread on vegetables as it could meat.

Likewise, proper cooking of vegetables and meat would kill the virus.

Just some more info on what's happening in Egypt: google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j... -- Quote -- "It is unfortunate," the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Chief Veterinary Officer Joseph Domenech said of Egypt's decision. "The crisis today is in transmission from human to human. It has nothing to do with pigs," he told The Associated Press.... The farmers asked for an official government decision to set a price for each pig slaughtered.

Agriculture Minister Amin Abaza told reporters that farmers would be allowed to sell the pork meat so there would be no need for compensation. -- /Quote.

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