You’re unlikely to contract bird flu from your Thanksgiving turkey — but the price tag might make you queasy. There were 55 reported cases of bird flu across seven states as of Wednesday, according to the U.

During an avian flu outbreak, "The chance of infected poultry or eggs entering the food chain is low," the FDA said on its website in April, "because of the rapid onset of symptoms in poultry as well as the safeguards in place, which include testing of flocks and federal inspection programs."

No one has caught bird flu from eating turkey. That’s probably because bird flu makes chickens and turkeys deathly ill within days, so outbreaks at poultry farms are quickly detected and contained. “The chances of an H5N1-infected chicken or turkey getting into the food chain are very, very, very low,” said Webby.

A rash of foodborne illness outbreaks across the country meets your typical dinner guests this Thanksgiving. Multiple outbreaks of listeria and E.Coli have been reported since the summer months. “It’s like one thing after another,

The spread of H5N1 avian flu — which has killed millions of chickens, sickened hundreds of herds ofdairy cows and infected dozens of people in the United States — has prompted some to wonder whether eating turkey,