Yeah, Doc? How Much Time Do You Spend At Live Poultry Markets? Well, Me Neither . . .

City doctors try to convince me that my runny nose is totally unrelated to bird flu:

The bird flu hasn’t hit the city yet — but doctors say fear of it certainly has.

“It’s a scary concept — it’s easy to believe it can happen to you,” said Dr. Marc Siegel, who’s been getting 10 calls a week from patients worried their achy muscles and sniffles are symptoms of the virus.

“The fact is that not even a single bird in the U.S. has it, no less a single person. And in its current form, they won’t get it,” said Siegel, an internist and author of “Bird Flu: Everything You Need to Know About the Next Pandemic.”