Years ago we saw a commercial for an arthritis drug that was shocking, because it showed an actress kissing a bird. A new commercial is shocking, because it shows an actress in a park, in the grass, with uncovered arms, exercising on the ground, to promote a drug for a skin disease. The irony is both commercials advertised expensive drugs to treat diseases “of unknown origin”, and both of the diseases can be caused by psittacosis. In both commercials the actresses were exposing themselves to the very bird pathogens that cause the diseases for which they professed to need the expensive drugs.