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The Varying Epidemiology of Q Fever in the South-East Region of Great Britain II. In two Rural Areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

B. P. Marmion  and
M. G. P. Stoker
B. P. Marmion*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge
M. G. P. Stoker
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge
*
Member of the staff of the Public Health Laboratory Service, seconded to the Department of Pathology.
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The epidemiology of Q fever in the residents of two rural areas, respectively, the Romney Marsh in Kent and Chatteris-Witchford rural districts in Cambridgeshire, has been studied.

In the Romney Marsh some 14 % of persons who had suffered from pneumonia or undiagnosed fever probably had Q fever. No cases of Q fever were detected in Chatteris-Witchford R.D.

Two sources of infection—sheep and infected cows' milk—were found in the Romney Marsh, and the infection of some of the cases of Q fever could be attributed to them. There was also a group of cases who were probably not infected from milk or by direct exposure to sheep. They may, however, have been indirectly infected from sheep.

The absence of Q fever in the Chatteris-Witchford area is of interest in view of the use of raw milk by a substantial proportion of the inhabitants of this area and also because of their contact with cattle. Investigation, however, failed to reveal any infection of the cattle with Rickettsia burneti.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , December 1956 , pp. 547 - 561
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1956

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