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Girl Gets Bird Flu, After Kissing Chicken; From Breitbart.com, via Drudge
Topic Started: Jan 10 2006, 11:52 PM (255 Views)
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Girl Gets Bird Flu After Kissing Chicken
Jan 10 2:04 PM US/Eastern
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By BENJAMIN HARVEY
Associated Press Writer

VAN, Turkey

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."

Her oldest brother, Sadun, said Sumeyya loved animals and took care of puppies and kittens in Van's Yalim Erez neighborhood.

When her mother saw Sumeyya holding one of the dying chickens, she yelled at her and hit the girl to get her away.

Sumeyya began to cry. She wiped her tears with the hand she'd been using to comfort the dying chicken.

"She wiped her face," said her father, speaking in broken Turkish and wearing a leather jacket and a typical Kurdish headdress in their bright, clean home. "She started to swell. She had a really high fever."

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.

But at least two other children have died of the same virus in Turkey, and as of Tuesday, 15 people had tested positive for infection in preliminary tests. Many are children.

The disease also appears to be spreading.

In parts of the world where the virus has been deadly _ until now only in East Asia _ children like Summeya have been the worst hit.

"It was the same in Asia," said Dr. Guenael Rodier, a scientist with the World Health Organization who has been chasing the virus around the world. "It mainly occurred in family clusters of small size, and mainly in children."

Even if not animal lovers like Sumeyya, children in poor agricultural towns tend to be extremely comfortable with the animals they share their lives with. It has been particularly difficult to convince them that this proximity can now be dangerous.

In Dogubayazit, the Turkish town near the Iranian border where most of the current cases originated, children usually outnumbered workers in trying to round up chickens for culling. Boys and girls led cows and sheep down the main streets. As adult out-of-towners fled from terrifying dogs that snarled from nearly every backyard, little local children giggled.

As the H5N1 bird flu virus spreads, scientists monitoring it for fear it could mutate into a form easily transmissible among humans say education on its dangers is crucial to fighting it. Rodier said his organization was considering implementing a program aimed solely at rural children.

"It's child behavior," he said. "They play with everything."

As for Sumeyya, she is expected to be released from the hospital and join her family and her other pets _ dogs, cats and cows _ in the next few days.

"She's gotten better," Sahin said. "In a few days, she'll be released."

//Seoul
comment: This sounds like a stunt Edwin would pull.
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this story reminds me of this one girl i used to go out with...had a cold sore... :opps:
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Jan 11 2006, 04:15 AM
this story reminds me of this one girl i used to go out with...had a cold sore... :opps:

That's a foul thing to say!

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EGG-SCUSE ME! :]

sorry, my brain is kinda scrambled at the moment.

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Jan 10 2006, 07:52 PM
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comment: This sounds like a stunt Edwin would pull.

That's a lie! You know me better than that! ....aight aight i would. lol

Anyway, umm maybe that's why lots of girls don't kiss on the first date?
"though the ocean is big...but it can wave and do a lot of tricks." -Val-

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omg....is that what they told you?

*pats edwin on back*
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These yolks crack me up, and scramble my thinking... (Does that actually qualify as a triple pun???)!

In truth, Angelo, I think they're afraid of his beak.


Question to ponder: If Edwin gets bird-flu, do his parents ground him?

//Seoul

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LOL!!!!

Vic to answer your question i'll ask another question: If a mute swears, does his mother watches his hands with soap?

That's an old joke. lol
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HAHAHAHA

But that's so sad 'bout the bird flu.. I heard that the price of Kimchi has gotten a lot higher since it was discovered that it helps prevent bird flu.. So I'm basically immune to it? (my fridge is packed with it :])
sometimes...it's better this way
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I actually hadn't heard that one Edwin!

And Jay, no it doesn't save you. It just keeps people from wanting "seconds" when they come over for dinner! (JUST TEASING!) (She obviously hasn't seen "I must share my misfortunes..." thread in the Pull Up A Chair area yet...)

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^ it means jay is safe to kiss ^_^
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this should be interesting...or weird.

i'll have to read it later though

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Jan 11 2006, 06:21 PM
this should be interesting...or weird.

i'll have to read it later though

practicing my dance right now
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Don't say that Val!!
The reason we haven't had a reply from Angelo, is that he's in the back yard, baying at the moon, and keeping all his neighbors awake! Now wouldn't you feel guilty, if someone took a shot at him, while he's outside barking, because of his thinking of you practicing your dancing? Have mercy on the neighbors in Allentown. Remember it's three hours later there, so if it's 10:PM here, it's 1:AM there...

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i second what vic said :)
What a weird story...i wonder if you kissed your chicken sandwich this would happen..hold on i will be back ;p
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Jan 10 2006, 11:33 PM
^ it means jay is safe to kiss ^_^

Am I supposed to be flattered, or ask Jiyoung to smack you? :]
sometimes...it's better this way
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i choose option b :)
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:hide: flattered...but i just expect smacks from her now anyways...
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Jay, you can smack him too! The more, the merrier!!

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vietpucca
Jan 11 2006, 06:21 PM
this should be interesting...or weird.

i'll have to read it later though

practicing my dance right now
:love:

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Don't say that Val!!
The reason we haven't had a reply from Angelo, is that he's in the back yard, baying at the moon, and keeping all his neighbors awake! Now wouldn't you feel guilty, if someone took a shot at him, while he's outside barking, because of his thinking of you practicing your dancing? Have mercy on the neighbors in Allentown. Remember it's three hours later there, so if it's 10:PM here, it's 1:AM there...

//Seoul

yeah....if anyone wants to smack angel...he'll be in the backyard howling at the moon, thinking of Val...how the two correlate, i have no idea...but yeah...the line is starting to form....umm...val gets v.i.p. status of course... :love:

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Nah.
I get the first shot. I can swing a bigger fish, and get you softened up for the others.

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