Historic Epidemics: Parrot Fancier’s Fever Part 1

 

COVID19 isnt the first epidemic to hit our world, and it wont be the last. Since Im a big believer in learning from history, Id like to take a look at some of the diseases weve faced as a global community in the past couple thousand years and what weve learned from thembeginning with an obscure illness Ive had personal experience with, believe it or not: Parrot Fanciers Fever.

 

 

In 2015, on the last day of a camping trip to North Cascades National Park, my youngestabout twelve at the...