MUMBAI, India; ORLANDO, Florida—Fifteen human residents of Mumbai, India’s richest and largest city, died during the first 10 days of July 2015 from leptospirosis, a preventable but little recognized disease mostly associated with rat and dog urine. Another 30 patients were reportedly hospitalized with advanced leptospirosis infections. Outbreak News Today and ProMED-mail warned health […]
More medical warnings link dog meat to rabies
MANILA––Philippine, Chinese, and international public health media in mid-March 2015 warned that eating dogs can spread rabies, after at least 13 people ate meat from a rabid dog in Cabatangan village, Zamboanga, the Philippines. Summarized Robert Herriman of Outbreak News Today on March 15, 2015, from reports published on March 14, 2015 by Philippine media […]