Examine patients with acute Q fever again after a year If patients with acute Q fever are re-examined for antibodies one year after their infection, 98% of the patients with chronic Q fever can be detected.
End to Marburg risk On 11 July 2008, a Dutch woman died of Marburg haemorrhagic fever, a serious illness caused by the Marburg virus, which she had contracted in Uganda during a visit to a bat cave.