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Officials Race To Contain Leptospirosis Outbreak
February 23, 2011
Bantul district in Yogyakarta has declared a state of emergency and health agencies nationwide are on alert following an outbreak of leptospirosis, a fatal animal-borne disease that can result in high fever, internal bleeding and organ failure, the Health Ministry said.
Four of 15 people reported to have been infected with the bacterial disease have died since the onset of the outbreak in late January, a fatality rate of 27 percent.
Tjandra Yoga Aditama, the ministry?s director general of disease control and environmental health, said infected rats may have caused the epidemic...
Officials Race To Contain Leptospirosis Outbreak
February 23, 2011
Bantul district in Yogyakarta has declared a state of emergency and health agencies nationwide are on alert following an outbreak of leptospirosis, a fatal animal-borne disease that can result in high fever, internal bleeding and organ failure, the Health Ministry said.
Four of 15 people reported to have been infected with the bacterial disease have died since the onset of the outbreak in late January, a fatality rate of 27 percent.
Tjandra Yoga Aditama, the ministry?s director general of disease control and environmental health, said infected rats may have caused the epidemic...