Soldiers Returning From Iraq may have Q. Fever

[Monkeyman]

Q fever can range from a subclinical illness to an infection that becomes severe and chronic ,or even fatal.

A few troops returning from Iraq are bringing home Q fever, a zoonotic disease caused by rickettsial pathogen Coxiella burnetii, according to military physicians.

During the first Gulf War there ony three caes og Q fever occurred among U.S. military forces, but there have been 10 caes among soldiers serving in the current war, the physicians reported in the Oct. 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.


http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pulmonary/Pneumonia/tb/4183

[OhioChick]

1. I hadn't heard of this before......

Is this similar to Gulf War Syndrome or Mycoplasmal infection? I know that Prof. Garth L. Nicolson has been studying/treating those two for years, as well as using Doxycycline therapy.

K&R

:kick:

[madrchsod]

4. google q fever

very interesting illness and very dangerous because of the similar symptoms of flu or colds.

[populistdriven]

11. sounds extremely difficult to diagnose

[Double T]

2. When will the rethug US government deny Q fever really exists.......

just like they deny Gulf War Syndrome ever existed. Got to make sure ALL bush presidents legacies are sanitized with blatant lies.

[populistdriven]

8. Because of its route of infection it can be used as biological warfare age

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_fever

[OhioChick]

9. I just read that, too.

Significance for Bioterrorism

Coxiella burnetii is a highly infectious agent that is rather resistant to heat and drying. It can become airborne and inhaled by humans. A single C. burnetii organism may cause disease in a susceptible person. This agent could be developed for use in biological warfare and is considered a potential terrorist threat.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/qfever/

[populistdriven]

10. liberal livestock farmers plot terrorist attacks using dried cow placentas

sounds so strange it must be true!

:+ its probably already in the draft Nov. NIE!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. don't forget that crappy fact that Haliburton served dirty water for 6 mos

if not longer - as DRINKING water to our troops.

[Monkeyman]

5. Some Doc's say you may be right there

[populistdriven]

6. a human being can be infected by a single bacterium.

It is considered possibly the most infectious disease in the world, as a human being can be infected by a single bacterium.

[sweetheart]

7. A feverish tendency to trust whatever DU'er "Q" posts.

Can't be that bad a fever...

[Monkeyman]

12. it can kill you read link

[bonito]

13. I really wish more people knew about silver ions n/t

that's all I'm gona say, but it works, ok that's it. Peace

[Rainscents]

14. I'm thinking, returning Soldier's been expose to DU and this is

what they are coming down with. Our government have to make up some shit in order to avoid the subject of Soldier's are coming home sick due to DU exposer.