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Leptospirosis
Infectious Diseases · Infectious & Parasitic
Severe
Severity
Common after flooding — seasonal outbreaks reported in flood-prone Indian states
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Infectious Diseases
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Caused by infection with Leptospira bacteria
- 2typically entering the body through cuts in the skin or mucous membranes after contact with water
- 3soil
- 4or food contaminated with urine from infected animals such as rats
- 5cattle
- 6and dogs. Risk is significantly elevated during flooding
- 7in agricultural workers
- 8and in people wading through contaminated floodwater.
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