Byssinosis 81 byssinosis-related fatalities reported in the United States between 1990 and 1999, 48% included an occupation in the yarn, thread, and fabric industry on the victim's death certificate. This disease often occurred in the times of the industrial revolution. Most commonly young girls working in mills or other textile factories would be afflicted with this disease. In the United States, from 1996 to 2005, North Carolina accounted for about 37% of all deaths caused by byssinosis, with 31, followed by South Carolina (8) and Georgia (7). The term "brown lung" is a misnomer, as the lungs of affected individuals are
Psittacine beak and feather disease in prevention. Every new bird that enters a pen with other birds should be quarantined first and be tested for BFDV. Birds which are known carriers should not be introduced into new pens, especially not if those contain young birds. Psittacine beak and feather disease Psittacine beak and feather disease (PBFD) is a viral disease affecting all Old World and New World parrots. The causative virus–"Beak and feather disease virus" (BFDV)—belongs to the taxonomic genus "Circovirus", family "Circoviridae". It attacks the feather follicles and the beak and claw matrices of the bird, causing progressive feather, claw and beak malformation and