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Swedish man dies from rare parrot fever (Global Warming??)
The Local (Sweden) ^
| 4/16/09
Posted on 04/16/2009 8:22:30 AM PDT by llevrok
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To: llevrok
Mynd you, parrøt bites kan be pretty nastï.
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posted on
04/16/2009 8:45:08 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(No free man bows to a foreign king.)
To: avg_freeper
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)
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posted on
04/16/2009 8:46:43 AM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(There are no points for second place.)
To: Travis T. OJustice
Yummmm....That’s a pretty nice set of cheeseburgers she has there....
The sandwiches look pretty good too.....
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posted on
04/16/2009 8:55:08 AM PDT
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nevergore
("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
To: llevrok
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.
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04/16/2009 10:08:41 AM PDT
by
srmorton
(Chose life!)
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