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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).
Of these types, Farmer's Lung and Bird-Breeder's Lung are the most common. "Studies document 8-540 cases per 100,000 persons per year for farmers and 6000-21,000 cases per 100,000 persons per year for pigeon breeders. High attack rates are documented in sporadic outbreaks. Prevalence varies by region, climate, and farming practices.
Airsacculitis, [1] [2] also known as air sacculitis, [3] aerosacculitis, [4] air sac disease, [5] air sac infection, air sac syndrome and simply sac disease, [6] is a common inflammatory condition of air sacs that occurs in birds [5] [7] and is caused by various microbial (mostly bacterial) taxa. [7]
MAC causes disseminated disease in up to 40% of people with HIV in the United States, producing fever, sweats, weight loss, and anemia. [11] [12] [13] Disseminated MAC (DMAC) characteristically affects people with advanced HIV disease and peripheral CD4 cell counts less than 50 cells/uL. Effective prevention and therapy of MAC has the potential ...
There are also several types of H5N1 bird flu, and they can cause different levels of disease, says Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., an infectious disease expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins ...
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.
The researchers found that the virus, a particular strain of bird flu known as H5N1, spread rapidly among farms. When infected cows were moved from Texas to a different farm in Ohio, the virus was ...
However, the American Bird Conservancy has utilized data from the U.S. Wind Turbine Database to determine that approximately 538,000 wind turbine-caused bird deaths occur each year."