Q fever vaccination: Time to kick the cost bucket?

Title: Q fever vaccination: Time to kick the cost bucket?
Creator: Islam, Fakhrul M.; Thomas, Susan; Reeves, Penny; Massey, Peter D.; Searles, Andrew
Relation: Australian Journal of Rural Health Vol. 27, Issue 6, p. 577-578
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajr.12573
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2019
Description: Q fever infection imposes an avoidable burden on the Australian population at significant cost to health services. Q fever is a notifiable disease caused by the bacteria Coxiella burnetti. Transmission from animals to humans occurs through aerosol inhalation of bacteria from infected urine, faeces, milk and birth products or dust contaminated by infected secretions mainly from cattle, sheep, goats and kangaroos. Transmission during times of drought is more likely when dusty conditions predominate.1 Symptoms range from mild flu-like illness to severe conditions requiring hospitalisation (meningitis, encephalitis, pneumonia).2 Those employed in farming and livestock industries in regional areas of eastern Australia and people living along livestock transport routes or near feedlots and abattoirs are at risk. A highly effective vaccine (83%-100%)3 was licensed in Australia in 1989.
Subject: Q fever; health services; costs; bacteria
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1507684
Identifier: uon:56049
Identifier: ISSN:1038-5282
Language: eng
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