psittacosis

The purpose of this post is just to ask for some advice from the more experienced people, so sorry if I missed the correct place to post, I was unsure. So I have a rescued feral pigeon that due to neurological problems could not be returned in to wild. he was hand fed and happy with humans, he...

I keep a small flock a half dozen homers. One become ill and died. I disposed of the bird and the next day I came down with a horrible fever, etc... that led to a diagnosis of psittacosis by my local hospital which was confirmed by my blood work. It took a week of anti-biotics to get over it...