prospective post-infectious fatigue syndrome study, since Australia's
Dubbo Infectious Outcomes Study found that 10% of individuals who came
down with one of several acute infections, which Q-fever was one, went
on to develop a prolonged post-infectious fatigue syndrome which was
indistinguishable from CFS, although I think the majority of cases
were better within a few years time.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21993345
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2011 Oct 14;60:1393.
Notes from the field: q Fever outbreak associated with goat farms ---
washington and montana, 2011.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Abstract
On April 22, 2011, the Q fever bacterium Coxiella burnetii was
detected in a goat placenta collected from a farm in Washington, where
14 of 50 (28%) pregnant does had aborted since January. A county
health alert advised health-care providers to ask patients with
symptoms compatible with Q fever (e.g., fever, headache, chills, and
myalgia) about exposure to goats, and the owners of the farm informed
purchasers of their goats that C. burnetii had been detected in their
herd. On May 25, the county health department reported a symptomatic
patient with antibodies to C. burnetii who had purchased goats from
the farm in February. On May 27, a report from Montana identified a
child seropositive for C. burnetii whose family had purchased goats
from the Washington farm in October 2010; one of the goats aborted
triplets 2 weeks before the child's May 12, 2011, illness onset. On
May 31, five more persons reported onset of symptoms compatible with Q
fever from late March to mid-May, following exposure at a Montana farm
to goats purchased from the Washington farm at various times during
October 2010--January 2011. On June 10, the Washington State
Department of Health and Montana Department of Public Health and Human
Services requested CDC assistance to characterize the extent of the
outbreak, distribute Q fever information, and identify others at risk
for infection.
PMID:21993345[PubMed - in process]
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