Show PARROT FEVER NEW THREAT TO POULTRY Nations Nation's Chickens Chick Chick- ens Face Potential Menace WASHINGTON April 16 P Ir- Americas America's chickens are threatened with a new po potential men men- parrot ace fever or psittacosis which has killed a number ot of humans humans hu- hu mans since It 1929 Is shown by new experiments ot of the public health service Chickens are readily susceptible to the disease says Mr V. V N. N Hoge of the service in a new report of latest experiments experiment on psittacosis just is is- sued Although he sees no immediate danger or of a parrot fever epidemic among the nations nation's backyard chicken coops and commercial hatcheries he hc indicates the possibility must be faced We have recently demonstrated Dr Hoge states that chickens are readily susceptible experimentally both by Inoculation and by feedIng o of infected material |