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William Royal Stokes (1870 – February 9, 1930[1]: 84 ) was Baltimore City's bacteriologist. While investigating the 1929–1930 psittacosis pandemic, he contracted psittacosis and died. An annual lecture, a library dedicated to bacteriology and a street were named for him.[2][3][4][1][5]

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  1. ^ a b Honigsbaum, Mark (2020). "3. The Great Parrot Fever Pandemic". The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris (PDF). London: Hurst & Company. pp. 67–98. ISBN 9781787381216.
  2. ^ Meg (13 September 2016). "MedChi Archives: Death by Parrot". MedChi Archives. Retrieved 1 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "[William Royal Stokes] - Digital Collections - National Library of Medicine". collections.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 1 August 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ Hasseltine, H. E. (August 1932). "Some Epidemiological Aspects of Psittacosis". American Journal of Public Health and the Nation's Health. 22 (8): 795–803. doi:10.2105/AJPH.22.8.795-b. ISSN 0002-9572. PMC 1557045. PMID 18013556.
  5. ^ HISTORY OF MARYLAND MEDICINE. The Maryland State Medical Society.
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