" parrot fever "

[Noun]  | "parrot fever" 

1: psittacosis

Origin: 1930 ;

[Noun]  | "psit*ta*co*sis" | \ ˌsi-tə-ˈkō-səs \

1: an infectious disease of birds caused by a bacterium (Chlamydia psittaci synonym Chlamydophila psittaci), marked by diarrhea and wasting, and transmissible to humans in whom it occurs as a flu-like illness often accompanied by pneumonia —called also ornithosis, parrot fever

Origin: 1896 ;

 New Latin, from Latin psittacus;