PARROT DISEASE.
BIRDS DIE OF PSITTACOSIS. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. April 7. Twenty-five of the 26 Mexican parrots sold at Christchurch since February are dead. The remaining parrot has not yet been traced. Dr T Fletcher Telford, medical officer of health in Canterbury, to-day stated that ali the birds had died as a result of psittacosis, a parrot disease which may prove fatal to human bemft is believed that the birds contracted the disease on the voyage from America, probably through ..one of the birds infecting, the others. The birds were part of a consignment of <o brought .to Auckland on January 21 by a dealer. Eighteen, of the" dead parrots have been incinerated and the others have been buried. Every precaution has been taken by the health authorities to prevent an outbreak ol the disease locally. ' . ' , Most of the birds died a fortnight ago and if no signs of an outbreak occur within the next ten days the danger should' have passed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 112, 8 April 1930, Page 7
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163PARROT DISEASE. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 112, 8 April 1930, Page 7
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