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From: q1ygq@turing.newcastle.ac.uk (J.M. Spencer)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Pigeon dangers
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Date: 17 Sep 90 08:20:12 GMT
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In article <9349@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> mike@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Mike W. Burger) writes:
>
>	At the University of Oklahoma Medical School I worked as a
>technician on a project involving a disease carried by pigeons and
>other birds.  It is a terminal disease of man caused by a pathogenic
>yeast infection of the spinal fluid.  It is a terrible disease that
>has early symptoms similar to insanity.  It is very hard to diagnose
>and when it occurs it is usually identified as some other problem.

It must be hard to identify .... it appears to have no name!  :o)