Transmission of Chlamydia pathogens from pets and domesticated animals to humans is well established. Chlamydia infections have crossed over to humans from cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, guinea pigs, birds, dogs, cats, snakes, and monkeys. Chlamydia is also easily transmitted to experimental animals, including mice, monkeys and rabbits; and Koch’s Principles prove humans and animals get the same diseases. Chlamydia transmitted from one animal species to another animal species, allows new forms of Chlamydia to evolve; and when immortal pathogens crossed over to humans, some of the pathogens evolved to allow person-to-person transmission.
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.
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