Psittacosis -- Japan
Two pregnant women have died after they contracted a disease spread through a parrot's infected feces, health ministry officials said, in what is likely to be the 1st such cases in Japan. According to a research team at the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, 2 maternal deaths related to the disease were found in a probe it conducted in fiscal year 2016.
The ministry and the national research agency would not say when the 2 women died.
Animal-to-human transmission of the
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