Psittacosis is a zoonosis — an infection transmitted from vertebrate animals to humans. Psittacosis is a disease of birds. You get psittacosis from close contact with infected birds, most often pet ...

SINCE the relaxation of regulations governing the transportation and sale of psittacine birds in December, 1951, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of human infections with psittacosis ...

According to CDC, the latest data suggest the outbreak is only affecting people who work at the identified poultry slaughter plants, but public health officials are investigating whether other people ...

Increasing cases of psittacosis, a bacterial respiratory infection, have been reported in multiple countries across Europe. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in February 2024, Austria, ...

Cases of 'parrot fever' are up in some countries – but scientists say there's no reason to panic. Cases of a disease called psittacosis are on the rise in Europe, where five people have recently died ...

It's a flu-like illness caused by contact with infected birds that can leave people suffering from severe pneumonia or brain and heart inflammation A YOUNG man was diagnosed with psittacosis – also ...

For those Americans who are paying attention, there is a disease outbreak in Europe that has killed five people — so far. This disease is known as “Parrot Fever,” or psittacosis, and it is caused by a ...

PSITTACOSIS has been recognized for a number of years as an occupational hazard in some poultry-processing establishments. The outbreak in Faroe Islanders due to the processing of young fulmar petrels ...

Victorian health authorities have issued an alert after a spike in humans catching a rare lung infection from wild birds while gardening or mowing the lawn. Twenty-four cases of psittacosis were ...