Michael Malone - Weebly

Across the grounds her grandfather and Mary
Bredforet stooped together in the humid heat, working
their garden. She turned around, staring at Scaper as
intensely as if she were about to answer a proposal of
marriage, though in fact she didn't even see him. "Q
Fever," she said.
"What?"
"Well, maybe not, but I know that sometimes, very
rarely, but sometimes, Coxiella burnetii can spread
through the blood to the heart.
But endocarditis would be very uncommon. Q
Fever itself's pretty uncommon. Nobody seems to
know that much about it. Well, I don't know. There's a
lot that wouldn't fit. I mean, Q Fever should respond to
tetracycline. But you say you've tried several of them
with no results.
Which is weird. And your blood cultures are
negative. But I still bet that's where we should start.
Maybe it's some new strain of Q Fever.
Maybe you're right, maybe it's being passed
through pets." Dr. Deeds spread out the charts on the
coffee table and began to read them again.