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Outbreaks, media scares, and the parrot panic of 1930 : The New Yorker
The media fueled fears of a parrot-fever pandemic; then the story went into reverse. Credit Illustration by Laurent Cilluffo On December 14, 1929, during a holiday shopping season darkened by the greatest stock-market crash in American history, Simon S. Martin bought a parrot for his wife, Lillian,…