Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — Pneumonia Among Parrots. [ARTICLE]

Pneumonia Among Parrots.

A Frenchman recently brought 500 parrots from Brasil to dispose of in Faris, An epidemic broke out among the birds from which all but two died. The contagion then spread to the persons who kept them and several have succumbed to an infectious pneumonia.