Q fever killed 95 people this year

This year, more people died of Q fever. 95 people have died of the disease. This number can be derived from the national database adjusted for chronic Q fever. Two years ago, 74 people still died from Q fever

complications

During the 2007-2010 Q fever epidemic, a number of infected people contracted the disease. chronic Q fever, which can also cause problems later. Vascular walls and heart valves can be infected. It could be complications such as heart failure or major artery rupture.

In 2016, it appeared that 65 patients had died of chronic Q fever since hatching. With nine patients died from acute Q fever, the total number of deceased patients was 74, 21 fewer than today (19659005) "Many people think that Q fever is now over If you asked me in 2010 if I thought that in 2018 people would die of Q fever, my answer was "no." But there are still patients with chronic Q fever and people dying, "says Chantal Bleeker, an infectious disease internist from Radboudumc involved in the database.

Dramatic

The Q-uestion Foundation again makes "Urgent appeal to the government for it to act." The news is dramatic and barely understandable. This shows once again that Q fever is not over, as many doctors, politicians and administrators alike claim. that the government has no control over this issue since 2005. "The interest group wants including screening groups at risk, an independent investigation of recent years, apologies and compensation for the thousands of people affected

Q fever is an infectious disease that can be transmitted to humans by animals such as goats and dairy sheep.Q fever is not transmissible from man to man. Data relating to patients with chronic Q fever are recorded in the aforementioned database of UMC Utrecht, Radboudumc and Brabant Jeroen Bosch Hospital.