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News items on 'Leptospirosis'
Manila, After the Floods, Battles 'Rat Fever'
(World health - EU Monitor 27/10/2009)
Albert Casis swerves his tricycle taxi to a stop just before the floodwater, lapping over a speed bump in the road. He knows the mud-colored water could be contaminated with a potentially deadly rat-borne disease that is still threatening communities in and around Manila a month after tropical storm Ketsana hit the Philippines' capital. State-run hospitals have been overwhelmed by an outbreak of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease spread from the urine of infected rats and other animals.
Woman dies from Weil's disease after rat scratch in garden
(The Scotsman 14/09/2008)
A woman who tried to free a rat from her bird feeder suffered scratches and cuts to her fingers. Four days later she fell ill with flu-like symptoms and within 48 hours she had died.
Health chiefs issue alert over disease threat in flood water
(The Scotsman 15/08/2008)
PARENTS and GPs have been put on alert for Weil's disease and other infections following flooding in the Capital. Urgent advice has been issued to family doctors to be aw
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