Birds that recover from the disease will always be carriers and can infect other chickens in your flock. Antibiotics are the best course of treatment against IBV . Keeping birds warm may also help ...

Psittacosis (Parrot Fever) This is a bacterial infection that you can get from breathing in dried feces or respiratory tract fluids from infected birds. This includes parrots, parakeets, macaws ...

Domestic animals can catch diseases like salmonella from wild birds, then pass it to humans, according to the FDA. Even a clean and healthy-looking bird can carry salmonella bacteria, the CDC said.

As bird flu infections rise in dairy cattle and chickens, human cases are ticking up too, leaving many people to wonder whether they might be at risk from this recently arrived virus.

The WSU lab in Pullman performs over 300 different tests that identify diseases in more than 20,000 animal samples, conducting approximately 250,000 tests a year. Skip to main content Arrow-right ...

Changing clothes upon contact with birds. Death or illness among domestic birds should be reported immediately to ODA. Please report by calling 503-986-4711 (Alt phone 1-800-347-7028).