Can Tuberculosis Of Any Type Kill Your Bird?

Many of us know or have heard of tuberculosis, which is one of the most dangerous types of diseases that may affect your bird.

With this topic, we will try to introduce you to this dangerous disease more, so that you can learn about prevention methods and the measures you need if your bird becomes infected.

what is Tuberculosis?

It is a bacteria called “Make Bacteria with Afim Cream”. There are many types of tuberculosis, or in other words, it may affect many areas such as the throat and sinuses, and the most dangerous and deadly is pulmonary tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis affects all types of birds and poultry as well. When it infects your bird, its death rate increases.

When this bacteria enters the body, it begins to multiply in the lungs, nose, throat, etc. The multiplication period lasts from 5 months to a full year, after which the bird begins to feel symptoms.

Symptoms of tuberculosis.

There are many symptoms, which may vary depending on how much your bird is infected with them.

Symptoms often appear on birds that are 5 months old and older, and never appear on younger chicks, because, as we said, it takes a long time to reproduce.

If you see these symptoms, your bird may be infected with this deadly disease.

Signs of dryness appear in the bird’s eyes and joints.
Lack of noticeable movement.
The bird opens its mouth for a long period of time every day.
You may sometimes notice a white phlegm emerging from the bird’s mouth if it is infected with pulmonary tuberculosis.
Loss of weight and appetite.

There are many diseases that have the same characteristics and symptoms in birds, so it remains difficult to accurately define the disease. Unless you see the white phlegm coming out of the bird’s mouth.

Is tuberculosis fatal?

Tuberculosis is very deadly, meaning if your bird is infected, its death rate will unfortunately be over 90%. This is due to the rapid spread of bacteria within the affected organ.

Is tuberculosis contagious?

Tuberculosis is a dangerous disease that spreads quickly. If you have other birds eating and drinking with the infected bird, the rest of the birds may become infected.

Modes of transmission of tuberculosis.

The bacteria that causes tuberculosis spread through the mouth and saliva, especially since birds keep caressing each other with their beaks and eating each other.

Methods of preventing tuberculosis.

Prevention methods are very simple…

Cleanliness and do not allow garbage to accumulate, because the accumulation of garbage is the best environment for viruses and bacteria.
Sterilize the drinking and eating place periodically, approximately every 10 to two weeks. Sterilization is done through special veterinary solutions, or through chlorine used to bleach clothes. You place all the drinking and eating utensils in a large bowl containing water and chlorine, leave them for 15 to 30 minutes…then wash them well with water and return them to your bird.
Try to keep your birds away from wild birds, because outdoor birds may easily transmit viruses.

How to treat tuberculosis.

This disease used to kill millions of people and animals in the past, but after the invention of antibiotics it decreased so much that it began to become extinct.

Unfortunately, there is no medicine capable of killing these bacteria. Tuberculosis is resistant to all existing medicines so far.

But one of the best ways you can do for an infected bird is to give it antibiotics and a variety of foods, as there is a chance that its body will expel the disease, even if the percentage is small.

Additional tips.

When you see your bird starting to lose weight and ruffle its feathers…isolate it as quickly as possible, then start trying to treat it with antibiotics.

Because if you do not isolate it, the disease can spread very quickly to all the birds present