Swedish man dies from rare parrot fever (Global Warming??)

The Local (Sweden) ^ | 4/16/09

[KarlInOhio]

Mynd you, parrøt bites kan be pretty nastï.

[Fast Moving Angel]

Lessee ... you’ve got a lot of options ... here are a few:

Fins (eaten by a shark)
Cheeseburger (choking)
Volcano (caught in a lava flow)
Margaritaville (alcohol poisoning)
Somewhere Over China (plane crash into the mountains)
Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season (storm surge, drowning)

[nevergore]

Yummmm....That’s a pretty nice set of cheeseburgers she has there....

The sandwiches look pretty good too.....

[srmorton]

Thanks for posting this article. I teach Microbiology to future Medical Laboratory Technicians and I am saving it to show to them. The infection can not only be transmitted by exotic birds like parrots and cockatoos, but also by droplet infection by common yard birds like sparrows. If that is the case, the infection is referred to as ornithosis. The organism belongs to the same genus as Chlamydia trachomatis which is the most common cause of NGU (non-gonococcal urethritis), a STD. It also causes trachoma which is the most common cause of blindness in the world.