3 million in funding for WSU Q Fever research

PULLMAN — The National Institute of Health is funding Washington State University a nearly $3 million grant to enable scientists to uncover how a parasitic bacterium uses a human immune system response to replicate and cause the debilitating disease known as Q Fever.

Researchers from WSU, Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, and the University of Nebraska medical Center are being brought together to investigate the bacteria behind Q fever.