A number of hotels and restaurants on the Indonesian resort island of Bali have dropped chicken from their menus after two people were confirmed dead from bird flu on the island over the last two weeks.
"Some hotels and restaurants have reduced the amount of chicken in their menus due to the recent bird flu outbreak," local hotel and restaurant association head Cok Oka Ardhana Sukawati was quoted Friday by English daily The Jakarta Post as saying.
Ardhana said one restaurant in the hill town of Ubud had totally slashed chicken from its menu while others reduced the amount of chicken in their menus by nearly two-thirds.
"They've created completely different menus for their guests," he said.
A spokeswoman for the Westin Resort Hotel said the hotel took chicken off the menu in response to the outbreak, which has seen mass culling and restrictions of the trade in poultry.
"We took that step after we heard news of the woman's death last week," Reinata Tjoa said.
She said that the step was a preventive measure, despite public announcements by the World Health Organization (WHO) that avian influenza is not transmissible through cooked food.
"It's just a preventive measure. In fact, our restaurant actually focuses on seafood," she said.
She said that the Westin restaurant would keep its chicken-free menu until the current bird flu outbreak in Bali abated.
Source: Xinhua
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