http://www.veterinaryresearch.org/orderreprints/1297-9716-45-60 QUOTE High doses of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in chicken meat are required to infect ferrets Kateri Bertran and David E Swayne Veterinary Research 2014, 45:60 doi:10.1186/1297-9716-45-60 END QUOTE People occasionally ask about infection through consumption rather than by exposure through usual routes like sneezing and coughing, and this is apparently new. [Posted in FML 8121]