![]() Raising her six children on her own, Ms Gaffour said her recovery is proving one of her biggest tests. You've got to be very suspicious that that's what's happened," Dr Zammit said. The bird was sick and had a lot of diarrhea around the place. "What else could it have been? She's got psittacosis. The well-respected vet is all but convinced frank the cockatoo gave Ms Gaffour the potentially deadly disease. Vet Surgeon, Dr Rob Zammit, said psittacosis can causing long-term scarring. "People have lung transplants because of psittacosis, lung transplants to try and keep them alive," Dr Zammit said. "I am so sorry, I mean, honestly if I knew anything like that I wouldn't have given it to you, I wouldn't have taken it, I am so sorry, I hope you get better," John said. The pet shop owner said while he is happy to provide a refund for the bird, no amount of money can compensate Ms Gaffour's health. ![]() This is serious, this is serious," he said. "When you're dealing with life threatening things like that, you can't muck around with that. John said he felt responsible as the bird came from his shop and he agreed to work with the family. 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. The mother-of-six was looking after Frank for her nephew, who bought the cockatoo on December 16 last year, from the Living Jungle pet shop at Ramsgate in Sydney's south. ![]()
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