As Penang leads the way in urban pigeon control through innovative enforcement and public education, other Malaysian cities ...

However, the most serious is called psittacosis. With this disease, an agent called Chlamydia psittaci causes it, and the disease is also called ornithosis. Birds can be asymptomatic carriers ...

with cases of bird owners catching psittacosis - a respiratory disease that can result in pneumonia and can jump from birds to people. "The Ministry of Health banned the import of birds for 20 ...