Parrot Fever — the 1929 pandemic

by Spencer Howard The fall of 1929 is typically remembered for the October stock market crash, but did you know that 1929 also witnessed a pandemic scare, one that ended almost as soon as it started?  It wasn’t Covid-19 or even the Spanish Flu;  it was Parrot Fever. Known to science as Psittacosis, parrot fever … Continue reading Parrot Fever — the 1929 pandemic