Pajarita wrote:The sick birds need to be kept in their own room and strict quarantine controls should be kept between them and the other birds (meaning, disinfecting hands after handling them, their cage and accessories before doing the other birds, etc).
Keeping sick birds in the same environment as healthy birds is a HUGE risk because it's transmitted through the air when poop (and other secretions) and feather dander become aerosolized. Enough particles of the virus are breathed in and the healthy bird will become infected. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
Pajarita wrote:It depends on how clean you keep the cages, how far away they were from each other and whether there is good air circulation/purifiers in the room. Baby birds have a very weak immune system and they tend to 'catch' things that are not acute in adult birds - that's why when a baby bird gets a disease, it usually dies from it while, if an adult gets it, it can sometimes either get cured or live with a semi-dormant chronic case of it.
If I were you, I would put the other lovies in a separate room, too - but maybe not in the same room as the baby conure because, if you have been keeping them in the same room as the sick ones, they could already be infected. Sadly, when you have birds that are sick with highly contagious, fatal and incurable diseases (PBFD being one of them), you should not have any other birds...
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