The Director of Health may be partial to a slice of chicken a day, but until they are fed with solid information on the spread of the bird flu, doctors, scientists and the general public are not convinced.
Glaring gaps in information are making dieticians, for example, uneasy. With very little being divulged about the characteristics of the H5N1 virus, Jennifer Wan Man-fan, director of nutrition at Hong Kong University's disease laboratory, cannot rule out the possibility that it could enter the bird's bloodstream.
'Can it be killed by heating or not?' she asks, pointing out that bloody meat is considered the tastiest.
'Tell us the characteristics. Tell us how it multiplies - they can do this in a laboratory.' She also urged information on whether the antibodies of the two people who recovered from the virus were being explored.
'Where is this data? Will they tell us how the virus cells behave?' she asked.
Provisional legislator Dr Leong Che-hung is concerned at the lack of information on H5N1.
