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March 04, 2006

Could this be the first case of bird flu in Burkina Faso

Pierre the tailor lives in Gorom-Gorom next-door to the poultry queen of Gorom-Gorom - a large jovial lady who does a roaring trade in chicken soup, selling it by the bowlful to hungry passers-by.

A couple days ago Pierre noticed that some of his chickens were behaving strangely: reeling and drooling and falling over. The next morning all twenty of his chickens were dead. Being an intelligent, well-informed sort of tailor, he burnt them all immediately and scattered their ashes at sea.

Actually, he didn't scatter the ashes at sea. But the rest is true.

Arg, basically.

Posted by sahelsteve at March 4, 2006 09:16 AM