Pigeon pox is a viral disease to which pigeons are susceptible. There is a live viral vaccine available (ATCvet code: QI01ED01). Pigeon pox is caused by a virus that is spread by mosquitoes and dirty water but not in droppings.
Famous quotes containing the words pigeon and/or pox:
“They wait, each like a wooden decoy
or soft like a pigeon or
a sweet snug duck:
until one moves, moves that dart-beak
breaking over.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn’t.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)