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The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Animal Industry on Friday confirmed the Philippines’ first case of Q fever, which is human-transmissible, in dozens of goats imported from the US that were bought at a government breeding farm in Marinduque and a quarantine facility in Pampanga.DA Assistant Secretary and spokesperson Arnel de Mesa said that out of the 94 goats that arrived in the country, 19 samples tested positive for Q fever.
Moreover, two dozen of the imported goats left in the quarantine facility in Pampanga were also condemned even before conducting tests to eliminate any possible source of Q fever infection. Other animals within the Marinduque breeding stations were also culled, the agency said.Further, the DA-BAI said Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr.
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