Word: kocyigit
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...remote, impoverished Turkish town of Dogubeyazit, a chicken is more than just a bird. For the hardscrabble villagers, it's often the only source of dietary protein, and for their children, the only toy. So it was no surprise that 15-year-old Fatma Kocyigit and her 14-year-old brother Mehmet Ali played with the sick fowl their father had brought indoors for protection from the bitter December cold. The fun proved fatal. The children came down with high fevers and bleeding throats; when they went to a nearby hospital, they received ordinary medication for a cold and were...
Avian flu claimed more lives last week. In eastern Turkey, initial tests showed at least two of the three deceased siblings from the Kocyigit family had succumbed to the virus' dreaded H5N1 strain, becoming its first human victims outside East Asia. As fears of a pandemic continue to grow, customs and health official's are struggling to halt a burgeoning trade in counterfeit forms of Tamiflu, the only drug approved to treat the disease. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials tell TIME that last week their officers seized 250 separate parcels of suspect Tamiflu at the airmail facility...
...increase production tenfold from its 2004 level, to 300 million 10-pill courses by the end of 2007. A rush order of 100,000 courses was sent last week to Turkey, where 20 people with symptoms of bird flu remained hospitalized, including the last surviving sibling in the Kocyigit family...
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