Psittacosis: Recent Epidemiological Observations

Psittacosis

The disease known as psittacosis lias always been one ol the curiosities of medicine, but the present widespread incidence of the disease m countries as remote from one another as South America, the United States, Germany, Switzeiland, and Great Britain has naturally aroused the attention of both the medical and lay pi ess. Psittacosis is defined by Dorland as a contagious influenza-like diseas...

Psittacosis

1. The virus of psittacosis is present in the nasal secretions, feces, blood, spleen, and liver of an infected parrot. 2. Parrots are susceptible to intraoral, intranasal, or intramuscular inoculations of the virus. 3. The most constant pathological changes produced by psittacosis in parrots occur in the spleen and liver. The lesions exhibited in the latter organ consist of areas of necrotic li...

Psittacosis

Although the disease psittacosis has been recognized for almost 6o years as an infectious disease of parrots which is easily transmissible to man, renewed interest in the subject has resulted from the fact that during the past year the disease suddenly became prevalent in many countries. During the summer and fall of I929, Argentina38 had many cases, and subsequently the disease became mildly e...

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