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John, the owner of the Living Jungle pet store. "All I do, my thing is, I get all my birds, make sure they're all avery bred, not from the wild, if they're from the wild, I don't touch them, it's not my style," John said. Questions we put to John, the owner of the Living Jungle pet store. "What measures did they take? And if they've done it with this cockatoo how many other birds have they done it with?" Ms Gaffour said. Then I remembered the cockatoo and it just hit me that cockatoo didn't look right."ĭoctors confirmed Ms Gaffour was in fact suffering from a disease called psittacosis, a deadly bacterial infection that is transmitted from a bird to a human.Īs treatment finally started to work, the Gaffour family started to ask questions. "It was when one of the doctors said do you have any pets? And I thought, 'okay I've got a bird, an eclectus parrot but it's not him'. Until one simple question solved her mystery illness. READ MORE: Cockatoo cleared of wrongdoing in Adelaide suburban dispute

Shaharazaad Gaffour wants her story to act as a warning to make people think twice before taking home your new cute and cuddly friend. At that point I'm thinking I'm dead, like I'm not going to make this," Ms Gaffour said. "They basically said to me you know everything is shutting down and you need to think really hard what's made you sick because the antibiotics aren't working and we will have to put you on life support. Ms Gaffour was placed into intensive care as doctors struggled to work out what was wrong. On the first night, an X-ray showed that 80 per cent of the mother's lungs were filled with fluid. I was getting hot fevers, like ridiculous hot fevers," she said.ĭays later, the disability worker was taken to hospital, where she would stay for eight days. "I started getting sick pretty much straightaway. READ MORE: Potty-mouthed parrots removed from wildlife park after swearing at visitors Shaharazaad Gaffour bought Frank the cockatoo from a pet store. Ms Gaffour couldn't put up with Frank constantly pooing around her home, so she handed the bird back three days later.īut it would seem Frank had already made more mess than Ms Gaffour could have ever imagined.

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