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An outbreak of Q fever in Staffordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

G. L. Brown ,
D. C. Colwell  and
W. L. Hooper
G. L. Brown
Affiliation:
Bucknall Hospital, Bucknall, Stoke on Trent
D. C. Colwell
Affiliation:
Hanley, Stoke on Trent
W. L. Hooper
Affiliation:
Public Health Laboratory, Martin Street, Stafford
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This article describes an outbreak of Q fever involving 24 men (five prison officers and nineteen detainees) in one of H.M. Detention Centres. The evidence collected points strongly to the consumption of raw milk as the route of infection. This appears to be the first milk-borne outbreak of Q fever to be reported in Britain.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 66 , Issue 4 , December 1968 , pp. 649 - 655
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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