Image shows fireman Walter Reintges, 60, with his two parakeets named Mats and Jacky, undated photo. The man from the town of Mechernich, in North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany, demanded compensation of EUR 20,000 (GBP 17,500) for acquiring parrot fever that almost killed him. Note: Private photo. (Newsflash)
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20 December 2022
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A fireman is demanding EUR 20,000 compensation from a budgie breeder he claims sold him infected birds that nearly killed him. Plaintiff Walter Reintges, 60, had reportedly bought 14 of the birds from a 44-year-old unnamed breeder, before watching them die of a toxic bug that gave him...