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The Adobe Flash Player is required in order to view this content. You can get it here: Q feverOne entry found. Main Entry: Q fever Function: noun Etymology: query Date: 1937 : a disease characterized by high fever, chills, muscular pains, headache, and sometimes pneumonia that is caused by a bacterium (Coxiella burnetii of the family Coxiellaceae) of which domestic animals serve as reservoirs and that is transmitted to humans especially by inhalation of infective airborne bacteria 
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