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Show PSITTACINE BIRDS BARRED FROM UTAH Immediate enforcement of the newly adopted quarantine regulations regula-tions for interstate transfer of psittacine birds in the United States was announced today by Dr. A. A. Jenkins, Director of the Division of Communnicable Disease Dis-ease Control, the Utah State Department De-partment of Health.1 The new regulation will virtually prohibit all interstate shipment of psittacine birds. Only shipments to zoological parks or research institutions in-stitutions will be recognized and then only by permit from the State Dept. of Health in the state of destination. Private owners may be allowed to transfer their birds if they have had them in possession posses-sion for two years and they have not had contact with other birds during that time and they have a permit from the state h-ealth officer offi-cer of the state to which they are going. . Psittacine birds include parrots, amazons, Mexican double heads, parakeets, African grays, cockatoos, cocka-toos, macaws, lovebirds, lories and lorikeets. The new7 regulations were adopted to control the spread of psittacosis (Parrot Fever) a disease dis-ease of birds, chiefly of the parrot family, although canaries have been known to have it. It is very infectious for people who are in the vicinity of the sick birds. It has also been transmitted from one person to another. Th chief danger, however, lies with the infected in-fected bird. ' The average top speed permit- -ted motorists on the open high- ways of the United States is 50.7 miles per hour, but nine states - have no speed limit, whatever, re- ports the National Conservation Bureau. Safety experts of the Bu- ;'- reau point out that no matter u what the legal speed limit may be, '-" the "safe" speed is still left to the judgment of the man behind the -i' wheel. Thus, heavy traffic or slip- pery pavement in a 50-mile zone, of may cut the safe speed far below a: that legal limit. Drive at a safe speed at all times for your own sake and the safety of others. |