Yeah Kritts, exactly! Let's look at Q-Fever a second?
Q Fever
Q fever is a zoonosis with a worldwide distribution with the exception of New Zealand. The disease is caused by Coxiella burnetii, a strictly intracellular, gram-negative bacterium. Many species of mammals, birds, and ticks are reservoirs of C. burnetii in nature. C. burnetii infection is most often latent in animals, with persistent shedding of bacteria into the environment.
However, in females intermittent high-level shedding occurs at the time of parturition, with millions of bacteria being released per gram of placenta. Humans are usually infected by contaminated aerosols from domestic animals, particularly after contact with parturient females and their birth products. Although often asymptomatic, Q fever may manifest in humans as an acute disease (mainly as a self-limited febrile illness, pneumonia, or hepatitis) or as a chronic disease (mainly endocarditis), especially in patients with previous valvulopathy and to a lesser extent in immunocompromised hosts and in pregnant women. Specific diagnosis of Q fever remains based upon serology.
Contact with animals or ingestion of unpasteurized milk or fresh cheese was recorded for 35.4% of the patients. Most patients presented with fever (91.7%) and respiratory symptoms (88.5%), whereas hepatitis was present in 52%. Interestingly, 11 patients (11.5%) presented with neurological symptoms and 2 (2.1%) had cutaneous rash."
Biochemical stratagem for obligate parasitism of e...[Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1981] - PubMed Result
"Coxiella burnetti, the etiologic agent of Q fever, is an oligate intracellular parasite of eukaryotes. Unlike the majority of successful bacterial parasites, which escape the bactericidal environment of the phagolysosome by various means, C. burnetii multiplies only in the phagolysosome."
Phagolysosome **These look familiar -
phagolysosome - Dogpile Images Search 
**I've got a photo of this 'release of progeny'