C Brayton
An aged male roseate flamingo, in a private collection in the British Virgin Islands, was found acutely "down." After four days of supportive therapy, the flamingo succumbed. At necropsy gross lesions included emaciation; collapsed and thickened, yellow abdominal air sac; dark red liver, partially covered by friable yellow material; and a raised, intimal plaque in the aorta near the iliac trifurcation. Histologic examination revealed severe, diffuse, pyogranulomatous air sacculitis with associated locally extensive pleuroperitonitis/perihepatitis...
June 16, 1992: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences