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  2. Psittacosis - Wikipedia

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    Psittacosis—also known as parrot fever, and ornithosis—is a zoonotic infectious disease in humans caused by a bacterium called Chlamydia psittaci and contracted from infected parrots, such as macaws, cockatiels, and budgerigars, and from pigeons, sparrows, ducks, hens, gulls and many other species of birds.

  3. Chlamydia psittaci - Wikipedia

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    Psittacosis in birds and in humans often starts with flu-like symptoms and becomes a life-threatening pneumonia. Many strains remain quiescent in birds until activated by stress. Birds are excellent, highly mobile vectors for the distribution of chlamydia infection , because they feed on, and have access to, the detritus of infected animals of ...

  4. Catalina macaw - Wikipedia

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    Some diseases worth mentioning include Psittacosis and Avian Ganglioneuritis. Psittacosis is a disease that can affect birds and humans. In humans, psittacosis can manifest itself to different degrees that range from asymptomatic state, mild flu-like symptoms to severe symptoms (myocarditis, hepatitis, respiratory distress syndrome, organ failure).

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    The first patient in the U.S. was hospitalized with "severe" bird flu. Here's what you should know about symptoms, according to an infectious disease expert.

  6. 11 common bug bites — and photos to help you identify them

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    Other symptoms: Ant bites are typically painful and itchy. In addition to the bites, fire ants use their stinger to inject a venom called solenopsin, which causes a burning sensation, Frye says.

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    Summer 2017 has already been declared an especially bad season for ticks due to the mild winter and growing deer and mice populations.. Amid mounting fears over the potentially deadly diseases the ...

  8. Psittacus - Wikipedia

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    Both subspecies seem to have the same ability and tendency to produce human speech, but vocal ability and proclivity may range widely among individual birds. Grey parrots tend to use more specific calls for different species coming their way which can be known as stimulus specificity, since there is a stimulus vocalization the birds have.

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