I was riding a public transport the other day when this woman with a baby on her lap was talking to someone over the phone. She was talking about her husband who is in the hospital right now and was being treated for leptospirosis. Leptospirosis is a viral infection one gets after being exposed to flood water exposed with wild and domestic urine, especially rats. “Contact of contaminated water with the eyes or nose, or exposure of an open wound to the infected water. It can cause kidney and liver damage.”
Call me eavesdropping but what I heard was something very useful since I barely hear a real case of leptospirosis outbreak in the country before. She said one of the symptoms her husband manifested was high fever and redness of the eyes. She said her husbands fever never goes down and that her husbands eyes oddly red, but nothing close to as having a sore eyes. It was like the nerves were about to explode already. That’s when they decided to have her husband checked where they found out he has leptospirosis.
At the moment there are more than 1,027 cases of this disease 87 of which already died. An outbreak was already declared by the Department of Health. Most hospitals in Metro Manila are admitting leptospirosis patients.
I’m sure with the number of patients in hospitals right now they definitely need a hand to help them out. We have so many nursing graduates who could use this for their work experience. Maybe they should start getting a local employment first before going out of the country.
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nakakatakot talaga, kasi maraming sakit ang makukuha mo from the flood. Ondoy left many people losing their homes and losing their love ones because of this disease.
No, thank you for doing a post on it – I was meant to say Weil’s disease not Weil’d! Sorry x
@ Faye OMG that was scary! Thanks for the info!
Hi there, thank you so much for this post, my dad caught this 13 years ago, many people might also know it as Weil’d disease. He caught it from contaminated water and it attacked his kidneys resulting in him going into complete renal failure and spending 2 years on dialasis before having a transplant from my uncle. I really would advise people to be so careful if they are anywhere where rats could have urinated, this is not a pleasent disease and it does not get cured!
Also if you suspect someone has this tell the doctors to check, it took 6 months for my dad to get a diagnosis as most doctors hadnt heard of this!
Thanks again for doing a piece on this