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Breaking News!
Q fever international stakeholders meeting 9PM Queensland time/AST Monday 31st March was a great success!
3rd session provisionally July TBA 9PM Queensland/Sydney time.
Emails/minutes of 2nd session will follow soon! (unfortunately we were unable to share the video, are working on alternative methods for next meeting)
Please use link below to participate!
Q fever international stakeholders meeting link
Thank you for attending the Q fever Symposium!
News will be on website soon!
Link to symposium page here
International Q fever collaboration links (in blue)
See also "QFIG research groups" section on webpage below for more details of these organisations.
Link to German Q-fever collaboration (Q-GAPS)
As a step towards QFIG's aim of international collaborations, the link to Q-GAPS , the German Q fever collaboration, QFIG's first international collaboration, is here: https://q-gaps.de/en/
International Q fever collaboration (Q-NET-Assess)
Q-Net-Assess
French Q fever collaboration(Anses)
Présentation et missions | Anses - Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail
EFSA- Q fever story map
Q fever story map
Dutch Q fever collaboration (Q-koorts)
Q-koorts Expertisecentrum - Radboudumc
Spanish Q fever collaboration (NEIKER)
NEIKER | Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario
UK Q fever Collaboration (APHA )
Animal and Plant Health Agency - GOV.UK
Austrian Q fever collaboration (AGES)

AGES - Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit - AGES
Q2030 Initiative launched!
On April 15th (2024) QFIG launched a new initative with aspirational goals for the year 2030
Please see the link on right
a webpage on ARRL and culture of C.burnettii from clinical cultures has been added.
See link on right.
QFIG Mission Statement
"To establish an Australia-wide registry of new Q fever cases and to follow each case, thus determining the natural history of the infection in Australia".
Locations of QFIG Members as of June 2022
Dedicated email address
As of October 2022, you may now contact QFIG via a generic email address : qfig@health.qld.gov.au