Serologic Evidence of Occupational Psittacosis in Poultry-Plant Workers
- 11 June 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 260 (24) , 1214-1218
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195906112602404
Abstract
PSITTACOSIS has been recognized for a number of years as an occupational hazard in some poultry-processing establishments. The outbreak in Faroe Islanders due to the processing of young fulmar petrels for food, reported by Rasmussen in 1939, is the first recorded example of psittacosis as an occupational disease.1 Outbreaks of psittacosis in turkey-processing plants in Texas,2 New Jersey,3 Iowa3 and Oregon4 have since been described.Although many millions of chickens are raised and processed annually in the United States, no outbreaks of psittacosis in chicken-processing plants have been described. However, sporadic cases due to contact with chickens have occurred. Meyer, . . .Keywords
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