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In China, the disease was initially reported in 1950 and in the last 25 years (1989\u20132013) there have been 29 reports on Q fever in China, nearly half of which were in the last 5 years. These publications have largely been in Chinese and in this review we summarize their findings to enable a better understanding of Q fever in China. The overall prevalence of<jats:italic>C. burnetii<\/jats:italic>infections in the reports is 10% (1139\/11\u00a0209) in people, 15% (288\/1918) in cattle and 12% (176\/1440) in goats. These infections occurred widely in China with positive people and\/or animals reported in 64 cities\/municipalities from 19 provinces, particularly those in the eastern, western and northern areas. Cattle and goats had the highest seroprevalences of all the domestic animals studied and a wide variety of ticks were found to be infected. 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