PARROT FEVER

Hawera Star, 13 January 1930, Page 5

PARROT FEVER

SPREAD FROM BUENOS AIRES VIRULENT EPIDEMIC actress as first victim. ..United Press Associates—»y tawssrie Telegraph Copyright.) NEW YORK, Jan. 10. The health authorities are mystified by a sudden outbreak' of psittacosis, or “parrot fever,” cases or which have been reported throughout the country within the past week. The disease first appeared at Buenos Aires, where an actress died of it. It has now reached the United States. Physicians are not familiar with the disease, which renders treatment largely ineffective, and while but few deaths are now reported virulent cases have occurred in cities in Ohio, Maryland and California. Four cases were imported at Baltimore to-day.

CONTINENTAL CASES

BERLIN, Jan. 11

Nine members of a family residing at Glauchau, in Saxony, and one person at Horst, on the Baltic coast, are suffering from psittacosis, or “parrot fever,” for which the State_ Government has temnorarily prohibited the importation of parrots, particularly from Hamburg, the headquarters of the trade, where a large consignment was killed on arrival, although the Health Department recommended quarantine. Street dealers are selling parrots dirt cheap and private owners are selling them or sending them to the zoo.