The city is seeing a rise in cases of human leptospirosis, a disease caused by rat urine, which if left untreated can cause kidney failure and liver damage. Last year the city saw 24 cases of human ...

Recently, leptospires were isolated from a frog in Iowa. 2 This report cites 4 human cases of leptospirosis, probably the result of hunting and dressing squirrels. Subsequently, squirrels were ...

Leptospirosis is an important ubiquitous zoonosis, most common in humid subtropical and tropical regions, caused by pathogenic strains of Leptospira interrogans. Leptospirosis is mainly an ...

As many producers and veterinarians work with animals on a regular basis, it can be easy to become careless about protecting ...

The capacity building component of the LepCon program in terms of infrastructure and human resource development were the best things that happened. We have a state of the art leptospirosis diagnostics ...

With the school holidays and hot weather, the Health Ministry is alerting school children and their parents to be extra careful not to contract the highly infectious leptospirosis disease while ...

Animal experts at Santa Barbara Humane say all dogs are at risk as leptospirosis is a potentially fatal disease and can spread to humans. This update is especially important for dog breeders ...

we will disseminate information and educate people to prevent the spread of leptospirosis. Elucidated the status of Leptospira infection and developed prototype diagnostic kit To date, the research ...