PARROT FEVER.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1930, Page 3

PARROT FEVER.

SCARE IN GERMANY

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BERLIN, January II

Nine members of a family residing at Glauchau, in Saxony, and one. person at Horst, on the Pal tic coast, are suffering from psittacosis, for which th'e State Government has temporarily prohibited the importation of parrots particularly from Hamburg, the headquarters- of the trfide, Where a large consignment of parrots have been killed on arrival, although the Healtli Department recommended quarantine.

Tbp street dealers are how selling their parrot dirt cheap, and the private owners of parrots are killing them or sending them to the zoo.

SPREADING IN AMERICA

NEW YORK, January 10

The health authorities are mystified by a sudden outbreak of psittaeesis, otherwise ‘‘parrot fever,” cases of which have been reported throughout the country within the ast week. The disease first appeared at Buenos Ayres .n South America wh'eri an actress died, .if it. It has now reached the. United States. The physicians are not familiar with the disease, which renders their treatment largely ineffective j and while but few deaths are now being reported, virulent cases have occurred. in the cities in Ohio, Maryland and California. Four cases were repo rtedin Baltimore to-day, , c