Leptospirosis is a tropical disease and US Centers for disease control
and prevention reported 100 to 200 cases in United States and Hawalli in
one year.
What is leptospirosis?
Leptospirosis infection is caused by bacteria called spirochete. Rats,
foxes and many other animals transmit this bacterial infection to human
human through contacts to their infected soil, or water, food and their
broken skin remains.
Likely hood of
people that get affected with this infection is
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Pet shop owners
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sewage
workers
and those with
outdoor sporting activities like
What are symptoms of
leptospirosis?
The symptoms begin observed from 2 to 25 days after initial
direct exposure to the urine or tissue of an infected animal or
via contaminated soil or water.
The illness progresses through the following stages:
Flu like symptoms includes eadaches,
muscle aches, eye pain with bright lights chills and fever Watering and
redness of the eyes .
You may feel
better for some days and initial symptoms re occur with fever and aching with stiffness of the neck. Some
patients develop serious inflammation of the nerves to the eyes, brain,
spinal column (meningitis), or other nerves. Right upper area abdominal
pain may occur. Less common symptoms relate to disease of the liver,
lungs, kidneys, and heart.
Weil's syndrome
Leptospirosis associated with liver and kidney disease is called
Weil's syndrome and is characterized by yellowing of the eyes
(jaundice).
