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Psittacosis contagion in 1930: an old story in a new era of zoonotic disease
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has highlighted the importance of zoonotic diseases. Psittacosis, a human disease resulting from infection spill-over from Chlamydia psittaci-infected birds, is a lesser-known example of a zoonosis. Psittacosis was responsible for numerous outbreaks in the 1930s, characterise...
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Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9650517/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36372317 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2022.105076 |
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author | Weston, Kathryn M. Polkinghorne, Adam Branley, James M. |
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description | The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has highlighted the importance of zoonotic diseases. Psittacosis, a human disease resulting from infection spill-over from Chlamydia psittaci-infected birds, is a lesser-known example of a zoonosis. Psittacosis was responsible for numerous outbreaks in the 1930s, characterised by significant human mortality and disruption to the global trade in parrots. This paper describes the epidemiological and clinical details of one family group impacted by the purchase of an infected, imported parrot. Findings are discussed in the context of a growing awareness of the health risks of global disease outbreaks, as well as social and economic impacts. Health information recorded for cases of psittacosis associated with the 1930 cluster was reviewed using contemporary knowledge of disease symptoms and epidemiology. Case details and autopsy reports were examined. Public health investigation deduced that the cluster of infections was chronologically and physically connected to the purchase and subsequent death of an imported parrot. Disease symptoms were consistent with C. psittaci infection. Epidemiological data supported the diagnoses and causes of death, despite the presenting symptoms sharing significant overlap with other common respiratory diseases. There is growing awareness of the risks of epidemiological bridges in transmitting animal diseases to humans. Historical cases are a strong reminder of the fundamental role of scientific and public health responses in the face of such contagion. |
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spelling | pubmed-96505172022-11-14 Psittacosis contagion in 1930: an old story in a new era of zoonotic disease Weston, Kathryn M. Polkinghorne, Adam Branley, James M. Microbes Infect Original Article The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has highlighted the importance of zoonotic diseases. Psittacosis, a human disease resulting from infection spill-over from Chlamydia psittaci-infected birds, is a lesser-known example of a zoonosis. Psittacosis was responsible for numerous outbreaks in the 1930s, characterised by significant human mortality and disruption to the global trade in parrots. This paper describes the epidemiological and clinical details of one family group impacted by the purchase of an infected, imported parrot. Findings are discussed in the context of a growing awareness of the health risks of global disease outbreaks, as well as social and economic impacts. Health information recorded for cases of psittacosis associated with the 1930 cluster was reviewed using contemporary knowledge of disease symptoms and epidemiology. Case details and autopsy reports were examined. Public health investigation deduced that the cluster of infections was chronologically and physically connected to the purchase and subsequent death of an imported parrot. Disease symptoms were consistent with C. psittaci infection. Epidemiological data supported the diagnoses and causes of death, despite the presenting symptoms sharing significant overlap with other common respiratory diseases. There is growing awareness of the risks of epidemiological bridges in transmitting animal diseases to humans. Historical cases are a strong reminder of the fundamental role of scientific and public health responses in the face of such contagion. Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. 2023-05 2022-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9650517/ /pubmed/36372317 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2022.105076 Text en © 2022 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Weston, Kathryn M. Polkinghorne, Adam Branley, James M. Psittacosis contagion in 1930: an old story in a new era of zoonotic disease |
title | Psittacosis contagion in 1930: an old story in a new era of zoonotic disease |
title_full | Psittacosis contagion in 1930: an old story in a new era of zoonotic disease |
title_fullStr | Psittacosis contagion in 1930: an old story in a new era of zoonotic disease |
title_full_unstemmed | Psittacosis contagion in 1930: an old story in a new era of zoonotic disease |
title_short | Psittacosis contagion in 1930: an old story in a new era of zoonotic disease |
title_sort | psittacosis contagion in 1930: an old story in a new era of zoonotic disease |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9650517/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36372317 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2022.105076 |
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