Farmer killer leptuspirosis takes over 100 lives in Sri Lanka

(December 20, 2010) The Epidemiology Unit of the Sri Lanka Ministry of Health says that 107 deaths were reported from Sri Lanka so far during this year due to leptuspirosis.

The number of leptuspirosis cases reported during this period is 4295.

The most of the patients are farmers who catch the disease when working in paddy fields from urine of the rats that carry leptuspirosis.

As Wikipedia says, Leptospirosis 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.

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