BSc (Hons), MBBS, PhD, FASM, FACTM, FRCPA, Medical Director, Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory, Vic; Professor, Faculty of Health, The University of Newcastle, NSW
Q fever is the most commonly notified zoonotic disease in Australia, with the majority of cases reported from northern New South Wales and southern Queensland.
A man aged 41 years was brought to hospital with fever, sweats, headache, myalgia, arthralgia and increasing confusion of six days’ duration.