Reply #4: If the chicken "manufacturer" chooses to reveal

[tavalon]

that one of his chickens has avian flu, the whole flock will be killed. If the manufacturer chooses to hide the fact, then much of his flock will die and it's possible that the flu could be passed on to a number of people in it's current form. Every time it's passed on to a human, there is a possibility that the virus will make its critical mutation to be able to easily pass from human to human.

It's likely that we will all be affected by this bird flu thing, even if it doesn't become a pandemic.