KATHY JOHNSON said in a message to CHERANE TRAJERE:
>How about finches, love birds, tiels, keets.  Greenwing....Cockatoo?
KJ> The one I'd be most comfortable sitting next to would be
KJ> finches, since most of the diseases that parrots get don't
KJ> affect finches, and vice versa (except polyoma and
KJ> bacteria).
    I recently had a discussion with my avian vet on this subject and his 
information was that there is no indication that finches cannot contract or 
carry ornithosis.  They can likewise contract and carry e. coli, chlamydia 
and several others.
    --)@  Patty  @(--
    patty@warped.secret.com
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