After that we were taken to the ostrich nursery to see them as newly born and finally escorted into the gift shop to know about all the different products made from ostriches (like painted egg shell displays, feather dusters etc) and an ostrich skeleton was also explained to us (they have...
In another home nearby, in the village of Nawa some 30 km (19 miles) north of Cairo where Egypt’s first bird flu fatality was recorded, a father refused to acknowledge a large duck in the front room of his hovel, where several infants were playing. “There is no more bird flu here,...