Family loses three children to bird flu in poor Turkish town
Saturday, January 7, 2006
DOGUBAYAZIT, Turkey -- The mother wailed as the white shroud bearing the body of her 11-year-old daughter was lowered into a simple grave Friday, her third child to die in less than a week from bird flu. An imam in a surgical mask and rubber gloves read prayers.
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