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Bernice Ulah Eddie (née; 1903-1969) was a American scientist. She studied the transmission cycle from animals to humans for psittacosis, also known as parrot disease, parrot fever, and ornithosis. A great deal of her research was carried out at the George Williams Hooper Foundation in San Francisco, California.

Early life
Eddie was born in 1903 in San Francisco, but grew up in Nevada City, California where her father, Hamilton Eddie, worked as a mining engineer. Following her father's death from a mining accident, she moved to San Francisco with her mother Louise Marcelin and her sister Marceline.

Education
Eddie earned a B.A. degree in 1922 from the University of California in Berkeley. The following year, in 1923, she earned a master of public health degree from the same institution. She worked for a number of years prior to attending the University of Michigan, earning her doctorate in public health under the supervision of Dr. Thomas Francis.

Work
After earning her Master's degree, Eddie was hired to work in the bacteriology lab of the Department of Public Health in Santa Barbara, California. In 1926, she moved to the Department of Bacteriology at the San Francisco Medical Center. Eddie joined the staff at the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research in 1930 and became an instructor in research medicine in 1937, position she held until her departure to study for her doctorate. She returned to the Hooper Foundation Laboratories after graduation and was also named a lecturer in public health at University of California, Berkeley.

Understanding of Psittacosis
Eddie had a long-standing interest in psittacosis (later known as ornithosis). She and her colleague at Hooper Foundation Laboratories, K.F. Meyer, began a series of reports on psittacosis in birds and man. Her doctorate research in Michigan involved a survey of game birds of Michigan, which revealed infection in pigeons, turkeys, and chickens.