Elham Shaheen survives the Bird Flu

Published January 23rd, 2008 - 02:11 GMT

Prominent Egyptian actress Elham Shaheen has resumed filming the scenes of her upcoming film “Khaltat Fawziah” (Fawziah’s Mix). The actress had been living in extreme panic in the recent period thinking that she was infected with the Bird Flu virus while filming the scenes for the film.

 

Elham was filming one of her scenes in a village dressed as a poor woman who works in a chicken farm and is forced to deal with different kinds of birds. In the scene, Elham had to hold a chicken in her hands and to her shock and everyone present the chicken just died in her hands, a matter that caused her and everyone to panic.

 

A veterinarian was called to the scene immediately and after examining the dead chicken and all the others in the farm her discovered that at least three were infected with the Bird Flu.

 

Upon discovering the shocking fact, filming of the scenes came to a halt and Elham was admitted to hospital to ensure that she was infected with the deadly virus. Doctors assured the actress after numerous examinations that she was not infected in any way and could return to her normal life without any worries.