How to confirm whether pigeons have psittacosis virus?

Hold the pigeon's nose with your hand and stay for a while to see if the racing pigeon sneezes. Whether there is sneezing. If not, there is basically no psittacosis virus.

Parrot fever, or bird breeding disease, is a major infectious disease. Its main symptoms are runny nose, itchy head and mouth, fatigue during flight, eyelid swelling, tears, sneezing, asthma, cough, throat swelling and so on.

Generally speaking, more than 50% young pigeons are prone to bird disease (or psittacosis). This symptom will lead to a decline in the quality of flight training of young pigeons and an increase in the loss rate of young pigeons in the competition. Due to this symptom, mucous membrane secretion is reduced, widowed pigeons are tired of flying, competition results are reduced, and body feathers fall off. ?

How to treat psittacosis virus

As for drug treatment, oral tetracycline is the first choice for pathogens, followed by erythromycin. Taking 1 ~ 2 days can relieve fever and symptoms, and the course of treatment is about 3 weeks. The patient was isolated to prevent transmission through the respiratory tract. Those who can't eat should be rehydrated, and those who have difficulty breathing should be given oxygen to assist breathing.

The disease is epidemic, mainly spread and infected in many birds, and occasionally transmitted from infected animals to people.