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Bird fancier's lung (BFL), also known as bird breeder's lung, is a type of hypersensitivity pneumonitis. It can cause shortness of breath , fever , dry cough , chest pain , anorexia and weight loss , fatigue , and progressive pulmonary fibrosis (the most serious complication).
8 day old chick with difficulty breathing, due to an Avian influenza infection. Avian infectious bronchitis, caused by a strain of Avian coronavirus previously known as infectious bronchitis virus [2] Avian infectious laryngotracheitis, caused by Gallid alphaherpesvirus 1 [3] Avian influenza, caused by Avian influenza virus [4]
The bird flu outbreak has expanded to 31 states and jumped to dozens of species, including nine mammals in Oregon that tested positive for the H5NI virus since 2022.
Virulent Newcastle disease (VND), formerly exotic Newcastle disease, [1] is a contagious viral avian disease affecting many domestic and wild bird species; it is transmissible to humans. [2] Though it can infect humans, most cases are non-symptomatic; rarely it can cause a mild fever and influenza-like symptoms and/or conjunctivitis in humans.
In the last two years, bird flu has been blamed for the deaths of millions of wild and domestic birds worldwide. It could have to do with how infection occurs or because species have differences ...
Wild birds may serve as reservoirs of infection and have been implicated as the sources of infections in outbreaks on game-bird farms as well as poultry farms. Wild reservoir hosts may include pheasants, ruffed grouse , partridges , wild turkeys , magpies , meadowlarks , American robins , grackles , jays , jackdaws , rooks , starlings and crows .
More than 25,000 birds in New York have been affected by the avian flu since 2022, including dozens of new infections uncovered this year in New York City parks and backyard flocks upstate ...
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 ...