SuperChicken
Posted on July 27, 2007

As part of its avian influenza work in Southeast Asia, AED staff have created and cultivated an unlikely superhero, SuperChicken, a broad-breasted rooster with a familiar red cape and strong opinions about the best ways to stop the spread of bird flu. In both Cambodia and Laos, SuperChicken has appeared in public service announcements, on posters, and in booklets where he demonstrated the “hows” to preventing the avian influenza virus from appearing and spreading.  In addition to personal appearances at water festivals, marches and other community events, SuperChicken is also part of street theater performances in Cambodia - in the Thai-border area, the Vietnam border area and the rural areas around the Mekong River. To date, these performances have reached over 500,000 people in rural Cambodia.  To view materials featuring SuperChicken, visit http://www.avianflu.aed.org/asia.htm and click on Laos or Cambodia.

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