Recommendation on the risk of Q fever related to manure

Q fever is distributed in a number of ways, one of which is through inhalation of particles of manure from infected animals kept in deep litter houses. In the lambing season farms with more than 50 dairy goats or sheep are obliged to work the manure into the soil themselves or hire a company to do so or to compost it on site. Not all farms are able to meet this obligation, however. Alternative forms of processing, such as industrial composting or gasification are not allowed under current legislation. Composting is a manure fermentation process that kills bacteria as temperatures rise. Exact l... Mehr ...