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psittacosis|sɪtəˈkəʊsɪs, formerly also ps-|
[mod. L., f. L. psittacus (see psittacine a.) + -osis.]
A contagious disease of birds transmissible (esp. from parrots) to human beings as a form of pneumonia. Cf. ornithosis.
1897Westm. Gaz. 3 May 10/1 The British Medical Journal sounds a note of warning to those who make pets of parrots. These birds are the source of a disease, psittacosis, which has lately occurred at Genoa. The disease takes the form of malignant pneumonia. 1930Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 10 Jan. 5 Recently three persons were reported to have died from ‘parrot plague’ at Berlin and two at Prague. The disease is rare and is known to medical science as psittacosis. 1955Times 16 Aug. 4/2 Psittacosis, or ‘parrot disease’, may attack or be carried by birds other than parrots. It is not yet known how the zoo budgerigars caught the disease. 1966Listener 3 Nov. 652/3, I remember as a child that my father bought a pair of brightly coloured and rather handsome parakeets, almost at the same time as the great psittacosis scare started, so we got rid of our nice new parakeets. 1970I. Murdoch Fairly Honourable Defeat i. v. 52 It was called psittacosis because people thought you could only get it from parrots, but in fact you can get it from any bird. Pigeons are notorious carriers of psittacosis. 1973Times 29 Oct. 15/8, I have at the moment under my care five patients with psittacosis all infected by a recently imported parrot which was ill when purchased and died a week later.
Hence psittaˈcotic a.
1947W. P. Blount Dis. Poultry xliii. 389 Mice inoculated with psittacotic material often die about the seventh day. |