Its okay to Love Chicken…

Just don’t LOVE your chicken….

From the AP here: http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/10/D8F20AH0D.html

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.”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.

And that’s how young Sumeyya got the Bird flu. Sumeyya is recovering nicely, but the chickens are dead. I expect that if H5N1 ever hits the US, there will be animal rights activists rioting in the streets and farms to keep humans from destroying bird crops. I for one, will be sure to tell those activists that hugging the sick birds are the surest way to keep the flamethrowers at bay.