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Thai doctors fear KFC because eating it is a local superstition believed to jinx patients, causing them to die or worsen their conditions.
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Thai doctors fear KFC because eating it is a local superstition believed to jinx patients, causing them to die or worsen their conditions.
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In a country where superstitions are as imaginative as they are many, physicians have come to fear a jinx involving Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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