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Parrot Fever
Psittacosis (parrot fever):

Have you ever heard of the animal disease Parrot fever? Parrot fever is caused by bacteria, but it also has the characteristics of a virus. The disease is caused by airborne illness and something in the infected animals waste. Some of the symptoms of this disease in animals are discharge from their nose, weight loss, loss of balance and weakness. In humans they can get this disease by inhaling the infected waste or digesting the particles. One way to test for this is to keep the bird away from other birds. They also will do blood test, examination of the symptoms, same for humans. They can treat this disease by keeping the infected birds away from other birds that may catch this disease. Also disinfecting everything that the bird has touched, for humans giving you medication, Sometimes organ may be involved and surgery may be required. Psittacosis or Parrot flu is caused by bacteria, but also has the same traits of a virus. This disease is mostly caused by a virus that can cause the bird to get this disease. This disease is mostly shows up in cockatiels, Parakeets, and Parrots. They mostly worsen with this if they are extremely stressed. ‘About 10% of healthy birds can carry this disease with no signs of this disease.’ (Mcleod, Lianne). The symptoms in birds are discharge from their eyes and nose. This discharge is usually a green yellowish color and is very goopy. With their eye it’s kind of like very stinky green discharge. They might show symptoms of having the flu. Also they might get very depressed, and they don’t want to eat. The birds that are infected can transmit this to their offspring, other birds and often to humans. Like I said in the last paragraph this disease can be spread easily to humans. There have been many cases where this is very mild, but other has had to have surgery on their kidneys, intestines and other organs, also this disease in humans is a lung infection. The disease to humans can be normal to

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