Johannes Storz, DVM, Ph.D., was a professor and researcher, at LSU, in Baton Rouge; and he said birds were a vector for the spread of Chlamydia infections. Birds carry Chlamydia psittacosis, which can cause pneumonia, attack the eyes of both birds and humans, and cause other chronic diseases. The migratory route of the raptors is from Baton Rouge to Auburn, where the Southeastern Raptor Center takes in sick birds from around the world; to Huntersville, where the North Carolina Raptor Center accepted a sick bird from Auburn, in 2008; and up the Eastern Seaboard to New York City and beyond, which encompasses newly recognized clusters of ocular melanoma.