Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1898 — Parrot Diseases. [ARTICLE]

Parrot Diseases.

Psittacosis, the peculiar form of bronchial pneumonia communicated by parrots, has broken out in Genoa, 14 cases, eight of them fatal, being traced to a single importation of two sick Brazilian parrots. The health board lias warned the citizens aguipst harboring parrots us pets. At Berlin the veterinary school has found that out of 174 sick parrots 54 were suffering from tuberculosis. The disease is hereditary in the birds, and is intensified by the close confinement and discomfort of the voyage to Europe.