Jonezee, you don't have to worry unless it mutates. You can't get the avian flu by picking up a bird that exhales on you. Otherwise, there would have been over 10,000 deaths in Egypt this year instead of two.

Avian flu is not airborne. You can't catch it by having a bird breathe on you.

This might help:
"Many wild birds carry avian flu in their intestines and shed the virus in their droppings, but they don't usually get sick from it. Domesticated birds, however, can get sick when they come into contact with contaminated water, feed or soil. Birds spread the disease to each other through their saliva, respiratory secretions and droppings."

In case the link was missed in an earlier posting: [url=http://health.howstuffworks.com/bird-flu1.htm:853f4]http://health.howstuffworks.com/bird-flu1.htm[/url:853f4]