Parrot Fancier’s Fever–Part 2

Bradshaw Crandall, Beautiful Lady with Parrot, circa 1929, Public Domain

In my last post, I told about how my youngest daughter contracted an obscure illness and we learned about a disease called  psittacosis also known as Parrot Fanciers fever. In the process, I discovered a little-known but fascinating history of a pandemic in 1930 that led in part to the creation of what is now known as the National Institute of Health, one of the organizations on the cutting edge of research on...