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Edwin H. Lennette, M.D.; William H. Clark, M.D.

J Am Med Assoc. 1951;145(5):306-309.

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Q fever was described as a new clinical entity by Derrick¹ in 1937. The original description was based on febrile illnesses observed among abattoir workers in Queensland, Australia,² and for some years the disease was recognized only in that area. Since 1944, however, the disease has been identified in Mediterranean Europe and Africa, in France, Germany, Switzerland, Rumania and England; in the Western Hemisphere, Q fever has been reported from Panama and several parts of the United States. Prior to 1946 the only authenticated instance of naturally acquired Q fever in the United States was that reported by Hesdorffer and Duffalo³ in 1941. In 1946 there occurred two large outbreaks of Q fever among workers in meat-packing houses; one outbreak, involving 55 persons, occurred in Amarillo, Texas,⁴ the other, involving 33 persons, occurred in Chicago.⁵ In May 1947, Q fever was identified in California in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Berkeley, Calif.

From the Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory and the Acute Communicable Disease Service, State of California Department of Public Health.

Footnotes
Read in a Symposium on Q Fever before the Section on Preventive and Industrial Medicine and Public Health at the Ninety-Ninth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, San Francisco, June 30, 1950.

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