Well, the Avian flu would ignore our current innoculations. Meaning, simply, that it won't do anything to the virus, so the virus will have no need to mutate against it. No natural selection, so no catalyst.
And, yes, cooked chicken is perfectly safe. Flu virii are notoriously easy to kill with heat. Anything over 200 degrees for 15 minutes, should destroy the stuff. E-coli and Somanella, however, are far more resilliant (300+ for at least half an hour). And we cook our meat with the intent to kill those diseases.
Oh, Russ, it's not possible to avoid any airborn influenza. You WILL be exposed, no escape from that except death. Or living in a bio-enclosure for the rest of your life. It's only a matter of if you're actually vulnerable enough that the virus can successfully infect you before it dies.
