[Pimpmygop]

...and we thought Mononucleosis was the only kissing disease!

[martin_fierro]

Girl Gets Bird Flu After Kissing Chicken

So that's what the kids are calling it these days.

[inquest]

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.

This is actually quite good news.

[MaryFromMichigan]

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

What a tender hearted child.
Glad she pulled through.

[MineralMan]

Sounds like a sweet little kid. Kids that age just adore small animals. Hope she gets well fast.

[evets]

Stop the madness!

[TChris]

(Sung in your best imitation of a Mariachi Band)

Bese feliz mi pollo!
Bese dulce mi pollo!

(etc, etc)

[RightResponse]

In the related story, it was found to be very stultifying that her little brother felt no adverse affects after choking the chicken....

[voiceinthewind]

She sounds like a very tender-hearted little girl. Many children here raise chickens for 4-H. Her parents must have been terrified, several children have already died from this flu.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

Nothing in the slightest funny about this story.

She was a very fortunate little girl.

[Capriole]

I wonder if this is yet a danger when handling American poultry? My little boy wants to have chickens. For some reason he really likes them. Not long ago I caught him sitting in a friend's chicken coop with an old hen on his lap, petting her back while she clucked softly. It was very sweet. (OK, weird kid, I know.) But if this disease is going to move to the US, he is not going to get chickens or be in the 4-H poultry program.