parrot fever
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of parrot fever
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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Another message to a bird-lover urged him to contact a Birmingham pet shop after buying parrots there because the seller had subsequently died from what was believed to be Psittacosis or "parrot fever".
From BBC ● May 14, 2016
Balked also was research on Rocky Mountain spotted fever spread by ticks which live on guinea pigs; parrot fever, brain fever, infantile paralysis, whose respective viruses multiply in white mice; tularemia, which requires rabbits.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prior to last week health officials had thought that contact with infected parrots was necessary to contract parrot fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
The birds presumably transmitted the disease, which is peculiarly a parrot fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Affiliated with these nefarious swarms are 25 scarcely identifiable "inclusion bodies" or Chlamydozoa which cause a bracket of diseases including smallpox, rabies, parrot fever.
From Time Magazine Archive
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