Q fever

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Lucky_P

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knabe,
We see Coxiella burnetti placentitis/abortion in goats through the lab here, with some regularity.
I see an occasional case in cattle - all in dairy cattle, to date.  Had a case submitted earlier this week, from a dairy herd that's experienced 4 early 3rd trimester abortions in the last week or so; placenta was PCR-positive for Coxiella; will be examining histologic sections next week - veterinarian did not request histopathology, but I fixed a piece, just in case...
 

justintime

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I have never seen a case of Q fever, and  the only time I have even heard of it, is when we send embryos to New Zealand. We have had to test our donors for Q fever before the embryos would qualify to be exportable to NZ. A few years ago, Australia had the same requirement however, I don't think we have had to test for this, in recent years to send embryos there.
 

knabe

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So if goats are coming up open should one be careful traveling in and out of their property?
 

Aussie

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I have be vaccinated for it not a big problem in the southern states (colder areas) but in the north it is. Symptoms like lepto.
 

hamburgman

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I have seen a case of q fever in a person and it isn't much fun for the infected person to say the least.  A very weird organism to control, the Netherlands I believe a few years back worked hard to control it and had some luck then a huge outbreak happened after a few years of success.  Organism can last for years in the environment and infected animals can be shedders for a few years also.  They suggest composting manure for 5 years if you have an outbreak so you don't spread the organism even more when you haul away the manure.  Not everyone who gets infected with C. Burnetii shows signs of infection either.
 

tcoram

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I personally had Q-fever starting in June of 2010.  It has been a very horrible experience and I am still dealing with the after affects today.  I just had the second 5 1/2 hour surgery on my kidneys last monday.  The list goes on and on.
 

YoungGunCattle

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When I saw this topics name I thought it was about a new q dog son someone was trying to promote as a clubby bull lol
 

knabe

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a kid at work asked me about it.  i told him i had never heard of it.  i don't remember where he heard it from.

he asked about my cattle so i showed him a video of a birth.  he asked if i knew the risk of handling afterbirth.

i told him i don't typically eat it and that got a good laugh till i told him cows do, then he grossed out.

will ask him again where he heard of it.
 
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