lifetime movie

[LtlWngdAngl]

The other day I was flipping through the T.V. stations, and a movie on lifetime caught my attention. It was some medical-based movie, and the old woman was told that she had chlamydia (sp?), and that her husband must have cheated on her....but when a doctor stopped by one day, he noticed her parrot, and when the woman said that her maccaw had been sick too, they ran tests for the chlamydia psiticosis (sp?), and it came back positive. Though that in itself can be a likely scenario, the part that irked me is this: the doctor was explaining "how it could've happened" to another doctor and said that she probably caught it from "breathing bird feather dust or a nip from the bird".....last I checked, you couldn't get that from BREATHING around your bird, so it seemed idiotic, and not a good thing for people to think who don't know much about birds.

Just had to vent a little...thanks[/u]

[TooLover]

It is quite irritating when you see a show and they just don't have the facts quite right! You would think they would do a little research first!

[LtlWngdAngl]

If that whole breathing in the dust from sick birds thing was true, at least half of us here would be sick! Most of us have worked with sick birds before, you just have to take the right precautions...but breathing?

[Tiki]

I have heard of people being allergic to feather dust but never actually catching a disease from a bird. Sounds like a far-fetched movie to me. "No honey, I'm innocent! The bird did it!"

[Lynjupiter]

The worst misinformation of the show was mixing up human sexually transmitted Chylamidia which a yeast type infection with bird Chylamidia which in no way related to the human sexually transmitted disease. Bird chylamidia or parrot fever for a better name is a respitory disease.

You can get chlylmidia ( parrot fever) from breathing feather dust or dryed feces from an infected parrot, But you would have to have a suppresed immune system .Healthy people do not get parrot fever.
Lynda

[LtlWngdAngl]

I learn something new here every day!

[peeker]

Originally Posted by Lynjupiter

The worst misinformation of the show was mixing up human sexually transmitted Chylamidia which a yeast type infection with bird Chylamidia which in no way related to the human sexually transmitted disease. Bird chylamidia or parrot fever for a better name is a respitory disease.

You can get chlylmidia ( parrot fever) from breathing feather dust or dryed feces from an infected parrot, But you would have to have a suppresed immune system .Healthy people do not get parrot fever.
Lynda

I have to agree!!! There are actually THREE different possible C. diseases! One being parrot fever, two being the sexually transmitted kind, and THREE being walking pneumonia! Only the first one is zoonotic -can be passed between birds and humans. I know cause the hosptial was told to check me for Chylamidia Psittici last year and they ran a screen on all three. Thank goodness I didn't have Psitticosis or the nasty kind, but I did come up positive for walking pneumonia!!!! :shock:
Christy

[Lynjupiter]

Here is another little known fact did you know that a study performed a few years ago in Tampa Bay found that a high percentage of pigeons and doves carry chlamydia. That they can pass on the disease to outdoor avairies by gathering in places heavy with seed and leaving droppings.
Other names the disease goes by is ornithosis, psittacosis, chlamydiosis and chlamydophila

Lynda