| 31. | The plagues have been attributed variously to smallpox, leptospirosis, and other diseases.
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| 32. | -- Leptospirosis-- mud fever-- is transmitted by infected animal urine.
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| 33. | Hanta virus causes symptoms similar to leptospirosis.
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| 34. | Leptospirosis, the disease which attacked one of the dogs, is transmitted through rodents.
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| 35. | Animal doctors in Pennsylvania, Tennessee and New York also have reported increases in leptospirosis.
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| 36. | Leptospirosis is contracted by coming into contact with or swallowing water contaminated with animal urine.
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| 37. | Karp started antibiotics on the advice of an infectious disease specialist who confirmed his leptospirosis.
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| 38. | The water of the Carioca carries pollutants that cause diarrhea, hepatitis, and leptospirosis.
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| 39. | A leptospirosis outbreak in the immediate aftermath infected more than 400 people and killed 22.
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| 40. | Except in the Far East, bleeding in the lungs from leptospirosis has rarely been reported.
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