"Leave Turkey over bird flu? Not on your life
Norman Stone
Villagers may have odd ways of dealing with it, but this country has a history of coping with medical problems
THE BIRD FLU scare has hit Turkey with especially unfortunate timing. In the first place it is midwinter in eastern Turkey, where the first casualties have been reported, and that means deep snow: it takes heroic effort for ambulances to get through and, in the remoter mountain villages, even culling the sick poultry is impossible."
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