Health · Public Health & Disease · 2 days ago
Woman says apology came too late after father died of Q fever
Liesbeth Gielis lost her father to Q fever 16 years ago.
She says apologies have come too late.
Passing fields with goats still makes her feel afraid.
Her experience shows how the effects of the infection can remain for families years later.
Liesbeth Gielis says apologies came too late after her father died of Q fever.
Her father died from the infection 16 years ago.
Gielis, who lives in Berghem, says she still feels fear when walking past a field with goats.
- Who
- Liesbeth Gielis and her father, who died of Q fever.
- What
- Gielis says an apology came too late after her father's death.
- When
- Her father died 16 years ago.
- Where
- Gielis lives in Berghem.
- Why
- Her father died from a Q fever infection.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
For apologies, it is rather late.
Gielis's father died from a Q fever infection.
Gielis says she still feels fear when walking past a field with goats.
- Person
- Liesbeth Gielis
- Home
- Berghem
- Cause of death
- Q fever
- Time since death
- 16 years
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