Disease May Affect Entire Jamaican Diaspora

[Peasie]

Q-fever, a bacterial infection transmitted by goats, moves from farms to larger population in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands is grappling with an outbreak of a rare disease which normally strikes farm animals, but has now infected hundreds of people who have no contact with farms. Most people who contract the illness come down with flu-like symptoms or pneumonia for a few weeks, but some are sick for months and a handful have died.

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[kia027]

Re: Disease May Affect Entire Jamaican Diaspora

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">&quot;They just said pregnant goats give the most risk to contamination,&quot; she said. &quot;Let's kill all the pregnant goats, contaminated or not. And that's very hard.&quot;

Under government orders, if any goat tests positive for Q-fever, all pregnant goats on that farm must be killed. Veterinarians were sent to euthanize more than 600 of Van den Ven's goats. </div></div>