DutchNews.nl - Vets begin Q fever goat cull

Vets on Monday will slaughter all pregnant sheep and goats on three farms where Q fever has been found, Nos tv reports.

The exact locations are being kept secret, but one is a goat farm in Brabant, Nos said.

In total, some 60 farms and 40,000 animals are to be killed in an effort to get the spread of the disease under control.

The bacteria which leads to Q fever is released when infected sheep and goats have miscarriages and spreads easily.

By the end of November, some 2,300 people had developed Q fever and six had died, all of whom had other health problems.

Q fever was relatively unknown in humans prior to 2007. The disease leads to flu-like symptoms in adults but can cause lung and heart problems.

And here comes the chopper to chop of your head!

Yet another item to add to my 'black list' of undesirable foods...

GOAT'S CHEESE!

BAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

By stevie | December 21, 2009 7:24 PM

Q_ Fever ( Coxiella Burnettii) not known before 2007? Who gave you that information? In Australia, they have an ongoing vaccination programme and have done so for 40 years. I have survived Q fever, but have the newly discovered variant that is Q fever Syndrome which resembles Chronic Fatigue. This Disease is well known by those governments that have had Bio-weapons. They created a weaponised version of it. Q-fever, is a hardy ricksettial Typhus Type pathogen. Shepherds, farmworkers and slaughtermen, and wool workers can get this disease. It will lay doemant for years until disturbed and is ingested by breathing in dust, or getting an aerosol spray in the face when lambing. . It can be ingested during parturition birth)or lambing, calving or birth of any warm blooded animal. It is not confined to sheep and goats. Please get your facts correct and do not be hand fed information by vets. Vets in UK can be vaccinated, but workers do not get vaccinated. In Australia everybody gets vaccinated. This nicrobe can be airborne in very special circunmstances, as happened in Solihull in Birmingham around 1990. 167 people were infected ina very urban setting. The Heartlands Hospital and Queensland University of Australia did research as to why this disease of warm blooded animals was infecting humans in an urban setting. They concluded that a wind blowing over the sheep and goat small holdings in April, the time of lambing, blew the pathogen over the urban area. One pathogen is all it takes to be infecte dwith this disease. Thsi study led to the classification of the Q-Fever Syndrome. i was infected in 1977 and I was never cured of it. I developed that Syndrome type of infection as did the majority of thos ein the Solihull study. Research Alexander Burnett and Q Fevr and see what you get. Research bio weapons and Q fever and see comes up. This disease will cause cardiomyopathy and a hepatic illness. If it does not kill you. Otherwis ein agreat deal of cases it will simply be treate dlike aflue, but unfortunately unless the Doctor knows what he is dealing with he will not use Tetracycline which is the only known antibiotic that is useful in the early stage onset. Why are the Vets killing the animals then when vaccination for humans exists? This is an outrage. the senseless killing of the animals. Vaccinate the human population, it is easier. You cannot eradicate Q-fever, because it exists in all warm blooded animals, where it is a mild disease and has no effect on production.

By Alan Cameron | December 21, 2009 8:07 PM

Yes, unpasteuriased cheese or milk from any milking animal is likely to harbour the pathogen. The idea of unpasteurised " healthy" organic cheese or milk being somehow superior to pasteurised dairy products is indeed playing roulette with your health. Raw milk and dairy products from cows sheep and goats should be avoided at all times. Slaughtering animals is not a pleasant process for anybody involved, and in fact the very act of slaughter releases Q Fever into the atmosphere, or contaminates one with blood and body fluids.

By Alan Cameron | December 21, 2009 9:24 PM

Its true to say that unpasturised products carry a risk not only of this diseas but of many more too. Why would anyone choose to risk their health in this way when there are perfectly good ways fo reducing this risk.

Destruction of thousands of blameless animals canot be the way forward whenever the human race has a problem. as stated this only causes further problems in the long term.

By sharon | March 23, 2010 9:15 AM