Within two weeks I was back to normal. Treatment is generally 10 to 14 days of Tetracycline or Erythromycin. To prevent psittacosis, wear gloves and a mask. I've had to remove dead animals. To get to some of this stuff, I've had to go places where people haven't been in fifty or one hundred years.
Animals move in.
So over the years I've had to destroy animals to get to merchandise. One time we were doing a barn in upstate New York, and there were a few raccoons sitting on thousands and thousands of dollars worth of merchandise. They wouldn't move, so we had to shoot 'em. I got a cupboard in my house that I killed a big bat over. He was living in there.