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South Canterbury Times, Issue 4991, 26 April 1889, Page 4

Lovers of birds beware of parrots, and other birds of gay plumage, especially of those which come to us from the fair shores of South America, for it has just been discovered at Marseilles that a cargo of birds has brought over the germs ef yellow fever from the swamps and lagoons of Venezuela and other South American countries. The first to fall a prey to the murderous germ were a couple of lovers and an old lady who had bought some of the gay plumaged chatterers. M. Pasteur will have to come to the rescue, for the desolation in French ports would be great were the shrieking parrots to disappear from the streets