1.31.2006
H5N1 in Babylon
“The story of her illness suggested a strong link, however. The girl touched a dead bird infected with the H5N1 virus on Jan 14, according to a statement by the Iraq health minister reported in the Times, and died three days later.”
Whenever there is a case of a child dying, of any reason anywhere in the world, I turn into an angry mush. And in this case, images of this beautiful girl dying haunted me every since I heard the news. I keep seeing her playing alone outside in the sun, dusty old sandals against the gravel lost in thought by news and image of war and death all around her. Doing what she knows to be the kind thing to do when a life is lost, burying a dead bird. Three days later, like a beautiful castle built on a sandy beach, she is gone too soon.
Goodbye, my
friend.
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