New York City parrot shop owner Queron Romain gets over a dozen requests per month to re-home birds whose elderly owners have become sick. Other times, the birds outlive their owners altogether.

The Benton Franklin Health District is warning customers of the Pasco Flea Market that animals purchased there may have carried bacterial infections that made people sick. One person who bought a ...

PHILADELPHIA – Dr. Susan Tyson’s fourth patient of the day needed his previously problematic zinc level checked, so Tyson leaned over the tiny blue lovebird, inserted a needle into his jugular vein, ...