Outbreak of ornithosis.
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Human illness resulting from a disease of birds has been recognized for over 80 years, and it is probable that this association was first recorded by Jurgesson in 1874 (Westwood, 1953). In 1892 a major outbreak occurred in Paris following the shipment of 500 parrots from Buenos Aires. Three hundred of these birds died, and of 48 human contacts who developed pneumonia 16 died (Westwood, 1953; Leachman and Yow, 1958). Sporadic outbreaks were described on the Continent and in the U.S.A. during the next 20 years, but it was not until the great pandemic of 1929 that world-wide interest was aroused and a search for the causative organism led to the discovery of the virus (Bedson, Western, and Simpson, 1930). This major outbreak followed an epidemic of psittacosis among the parrot population in the Argentine, and, as a result of the unrestricted trade in pet birds at the time, human disease occurred in many countries, including England, Austria, France, Czechoslovakia, Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil, Denmark, Switzerland, Japan, and the U.S.A. At least 400 human cases occurred, with a mortality rate of 35 to 40% (Westwood, 1953 Leachman and Yow, 1958). Since this episode, as a result of legislation banning the importation of parrots, there have been no explosive outbreaks of this nature, but sporadic outbreaks have continued to be reported. In Louisiana in 1942 a particularly virulent strain caused illness in 19 people, of whom 8 died, and it was at this time that human-to-human transmission was first shown to
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عنوان ژورنال:
- British medical journal
دوره 2 5507 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1966