Girl Gets Bird Flu After Kissing Chicken (Lounge or LBN grr hard one :)

[wakeme2008]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Turkey-Deadly-Kiss.html

anuary 10, 2006
Girl Gets Bird Flu After Kissing Chicken
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 4:16 p.m. ET

VAN, Turkey (AP) -- Sumeyya Mamuk considered the chickens in her backyard to be beloved pets. The 8-year-old girl fed them, petted them and took care of them. When they started to get sick and die, she hugged them and tenderly kissed them goodbye. The next morning, her face and eyes were swollen and she had a high fever. Her father took her to a hospital, and five days later she was confirmed to have the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.

''The chickens were sick. One had puffed up and she touched it. We told her not to. She loved chickens a lot,'' her father, Abdulkerim Mamuk, said of the second youngest of his eight children. ''She held them in her arms.''



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This was a hard pick because of the girls love of chickens and she getting better .....

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. So sad...

But she recovered? I can't get the link without registering.

[wakeme2008]

2. Yes

"Following a few tense days when her family worried if she would recover, Summeya's condition has improved due to quick treatment with the antiviral drug Tamiflu, said Dr. Huseyin Avni Sahin, chief physician at the Van 100th Year Hospital."

[anitar1]

3. Uh oh is someone selling Rummy's Tamiflu? I doubt this story.

n/t

[bahrbearian]

4. I'm sure its over the counter in Turkey,,,