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A confirmed Bird Flu in Iraq

Here’s an interesting article I found of the Bird Flu. On Monday they had confirmed a case of it in Iraq, where a 15 year-old girl had died. It was the first confirmed case of the disease in the Middle East. Tests are being done to determine if the girl’s 50-year-old uncle, who also lived in the same house, may have also died from the virus. The girls mother, however, strongly disagreed that her daughter did not die from that disease. “My daughter did not die from bird flu,” Fatima Abdullah, 50, told The Associated Press. “She did not like chickens nor had anything to do with them. She did not take care of these birds.” Iraqi health authorities began the killing of some of the domestic birds in northern Iraq, which borders Turkey, where at least 21 cases of the deadly virus have been discovered.

Bird Flu Girl

posted by Anonymous @ 2/03/2006 11:40:00 AM