Pet-shop worker has psitty luck

January 11, 2007

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Polly Wanna Doctor

11:00 AM -- Forget bird flu. Here's a serious health alert from the U.K.'s Telegraph Website:

  • A former pet shop worker has been awarded £700,000 in damages after being left wheelchair-bound through a virus he caught from a parrot.

    Glyn Atherton, 35, won a six-year battle for compensation after he contracted the rare condition psittacosis from an African grey called Jack.

Jack, we're told, is still "resting."

— Larry, Attack Monkey, Light Reading

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