THE Davao City Health Office (CHO) warned Dabawenyos anew of the risks of acquiring leptospirosis during the rainy season.

The Davao City Health Office urges Dabawenyos to be vigilant against Leptospirosis during the rainy season, offering free ...

Of the 11 criteria set by the American College of Rheumatology in 1997, four are skin-related. These include: malar rash − “butterfly rash” that appears on the cheeks discoid rash − red patches on the ...

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The environmental context in which a leptospirosis outbreak took place during the summer of 1996 in the Rio de Janeiro Western Region was examined by using spatial analysis of leptospirosis cases ...

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The clinical presentation of leptospirosis can vary from a nonspecific febrile illness to a complicated, potentially fatal, disease after an incubation period of 2 to 30 days. [10] An acute ...

Swine leptospirosis is recognized world wide as an important cause of reproductive failure. Serum and histo-pathological examinations have been constantly used to diagnose this disease. This study was ...

The General Directorate of Epidemiology is monitoring diseases that could increase with the rains, such as leptospirosis, which occurs when rats come out of their burrows and contaminate food with ...

Introduction Leptospirosis is the most common zoonotic disease that causes morbidity and mortality worldwide. The disease can cause sporadic epidemics and recent epidemics have become more apparent in ...