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Bird Flu

In this Nov. 2, 2005 file photo, turkeys are pictured at a turkey farm near Sauk Centre , Minn. A dangerous strain of avian influenza has turned up in turkey flocks in Minnesota and Missouri. The disease is carried by wild waterfowl, and authorities are trying to determine how the commercial flocks became infected. (AP Photo/Janet Hostetter,File)
In this Nov. 2, 2005 file photo, turkeys are pictured at a turkey farm near Sauk Centre , Minn. A dangerous strain of avian influenza has turned up in turkey flocks in Minnesota and Missouri. The disease is carried by wild waterfowl, and authorities are trying to determine how the commercial flocks became infected. (AP Photo/Janet Hostetter,File)

To save myself from
being stricken
I never ever
kiss a chicken

"The Bard of Sherman Avenue: Poems by Tom Wobker"

D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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