I've had my sisters african grey for a year and I've been sick for 7 months with shortness of breath and coughing now I've been diognosed with Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (extrinsic allergic alveolitic)  just my luck.... if it weren't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all... From what I've read this is caused by the dust from the parrot... My parrot is going back to live with my sister which is where he came from to begin with she has another african grey also.  I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to keep the parrots dust from floating around the room and how to keep from breathing it in????