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Old 04-15-2009, 08:10 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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Swedish health officials are urging caution for anyone coming into contact with wild birds following the death from parrot fever of a 50-year-old man.

The man was probably infected 10 days before he died when he cut down a tree with a large bird's nest in southern Sweden, the Swedish news agency Tidningarnas Telegrambyra reported Wednesday.

Swedish man dies of parrot fever - Oddities News - redOrbit
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Old 04-15-2009, 08:39 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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Um, parrots are tropical birds...I'm not sure what kind of bird could have contacted the disease and then passed it to him from a tree near the polar region of the world.
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Old 04-15-2009, 09:05 PM
 
Location: Chicago
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oh, let's give these parrots to the Somalian pirates!

okay, bad attempt at a joke
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Old 04-16-2009, 10:23 PM
 
Location: Back in New York
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Um, parrots are tropical birds...I'm not sure what kind of bird could have contacted the disease and then passed it to him from a tree near the polar region of the world.

LMAO thats the first thing I was thinking. Parrot in Sweden?
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Old 04-16-2009, 10:24 PM
 
Location: Back in New York
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oh, let's give these parrots to the Somalian pirates!

okay, bad attempt at a joke
Why do that when we can just have Sarah Palin shoot all the parrots?..lol
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