January 15, 2007
这种因为带菌的老鼠尿混入污水中传染的疾病，会从人体伤口或黏膜进入体内。
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Leptospirosis (also known as Weil’s disease, canicola fever, canefield fever, nanukayami fever or 7-day fever) is a bacterial zoonotic disease caused by spirochaetes of the genus Leptospira that affects humans and a wide range of animals, including mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles. It was first described by Adolf Weil in 1886 when he reported an “acute infectious disease with enlargement of spleen, jaundice and nephritis“. The pathogen, Leptospira-genus bacteria was isolated in 1907 from post mortem renal tissue slice.
Though being recognised among the world’s most common zoonosis, leptospirosis is a relatively rare bacterial infection in humans. The infection is commonly transmitted to humans by allowing fresh water that has been contaminated by animal urine to come in contact with unhealed breaks in the skin, eyes or with the mucous membranes.
Except for tropical areas, leptospirosis cases have a relatively distinct seasonality with most of them occurring August through September (in the Northern Hemisphere).
