First my hear goes out to the victim. But please folks; let's not get caught up in a world where a declaration by one person makes it medical science. Please go back to the original story, even the lady in question says she has no recall of ever being in contact with pigeons.

Second we did not kill off all the pigs in the world when there was a swine flue and people died. Hysteria over a death can be very costly and damaging, let us refrain from using emotions to re-write medical science.