Communication with the animals living at home brings joy, helps to reduce stress. At the same time, people sometimes do not think that too close contact with the pet can be dangerous. In the nature of patients of infectious diseases of birds it is a little. What cannot be told about poultry markets and pet-shops. Non-compliance with standards of the contents and sanitation and also application of antibiotics of a broad spectrum of activity leads to emergence of new steady strains of microorganisms which can be transferred to the person.
Instruction
1. Too close contact with parrots sometimes comes to an end is deplorable for the person. You can be infected with ornithosis if the bird is the carrier of this disease. The infection affects lungs and the central nervous system of the person. It is transferred in the air and dust way, recovers hardly.
2. Do not buy a parrot in poultry market. It is the best of all to make it in nursery or specialized shop. Buying a bird, ask the pet passport and the certificate of CITES for the seller. Each animal offered for sale has to have them and prove his legal origin. The majority of large parrots in poultry markets is imported in the illicit way. During transportation they could "catch" an infection.
3. Anyway, at first examine a parrot. At the time of purchase the bird has to be healthy. Slackness, turbidity of eyes, baldness, mucous allocations on nostrils, hypostases on centuries – signs of an illness. Especially has to guard if the bird sneezes, greedy drinks, pants, with rattles, for a long time stiffens in an unnatural pose. Most likely is an infection. As decorative birds practically do not communicate with each other, the risk of infection of a parrot after purchase is small.
4. Houses an infection source for the person can become excrements of birds. As often as possible remove a cage. Do it in gloves. After cleaning wash up hands with soap.
5. Do not allow a parrot to peck food from a table and to drink from glasses. Saliva of birds, being disease carriers, constitutes danger to the person. But the most right way "to get" ornithosis or other disease – to feed and give to drink to a parrot from own mouth as it is done by some owners.
6. Infection with ornithosis from parrots happens not often. Nevertheless, it is possible. But if to follow all safety rules, then communication with the birds living at home will bring to you many pleasant minutes.