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A drunk lady picked up and took dwelling a seagull – solely to search out out later that it had hen flu.
Erin Punton had been on an evening out with pals and was returning dwelling when she noticed the hen outdoors a pub.
Inebriated, the 22-year-old from Ashington, Northumberland, scooped up the seagull and carried it dwelling.
An intoxicated Erin had filmed herself with the seagull tucked beneath her arm whereas singing Valerie by Amy Winehouse.
Within the clip, she mentioned: ‘He’s a magnificence.
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‘He really desires to cease in my room and all the things however I’ve bought nowhere for him.’
The enormous seagull appeared unfazed by the sudden consideration because it was carried round like royalty.
She wakened the subsequent morning with no recollection of the night time earlier than and was shocked to search out the hen flapping about in her front room.
After taking the seagull to the vet, she ‘felt sick’ once they advised her it had hen flu.
She promptly bleached her complete dwelling after discovering out the hen was contaminated.
What’s hen flu?
Chook flu, or avian flu, is an infectious sort of influenza that spreads amongst birds.
It might have an effect on people in uncommon circumstances, by being transmitted via touching contaminated birds, bedding and getting ready or consuming sick poultry.
Avian flu signs in people embody a really excessive temperature or feeling sizzling or shivery, aching muscle tissues and complications.
The final case of confirmed hen flu was confirmed in captive birds at a premises close to Tow Legislation, Bishop Auckland in County Durham.
Erin mentioned: ‘I noticed the hen outdoors Wetherspoons and managed to select him up with out even a thought.
‘I don’t even know what made me decide him up.
‘I put him in my sitting room with a blanket. Once I wakened within the morning, I’d forgotten and he was simply floating across the sitting room.
‘I dropped him off on the vets the subsequent day in a field and was advised he had hen flu.
‘I felt sick and bleached my entire home.’
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