VAN, Turkey (Reuters) - Eight-year-old Sumeyye Mamuk rushed to find her dolls as soon as she got home after almost two weeks in a hospital bed being treated for the deadly bird flu virus which has swept Turkey.
"I am really happy to be back home and see my family. I have been playing with my friends and dolls," a smiling Sumeyye told a Reuters reporter in her house in a poor district of the eastern Turkish city Van on Friday.
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