The Argentinian Parrot Disease

On the East Coast, there were all these rumors that had come from Argentina. The rumor always was that the Argentinians brought it over. And as a result, 90% of Argentina's pet parrots were killed. But in fact, the outbreak began, they think, in December 1929. A man in Maryland who bought a parrot as a present for his wife and stored it with his daughter and son-in-law before he gave it to his wife.