NOUN
- an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds
How To Use parrot fever In A Sentence
- One species, C. psittaci, causes psittacosis (so-called parrot fever), a respiratory infection transmitted from birds to people.
- In medicine (pulmonology), psittacosis also known as parrot disease, parrot fever, and ornithosis is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by a bacterium
- Parrot fever is a bacterial disease that affects more than 100 species of wild and domestic birds, including parrots, macaws, cockatiels and parakeets.
- Also known as parrot fever, this bacterial illness can occur when people have contact with infected bird feces or with the dust that accumulates in birdcages.
