A 32-year-old resident of Stryi District spent two weeks in the Lviv Regional Infectious Disease Hospital after swimming in a local pond
He was diagnosed with a dangerous infectious disease – leptospirosis.
As the general hygiene doctor of the Lviv Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Halyna Boykivska, reported, the husband’s disease was confirmed in the laboratory. He was admitted to the hospital in a moderate condition with complaints of general weakness, elevated body temperature, lethargy, and pain in the calves.
The patient told the doctors that on the eve of the illness, he had been swimming in a local pond, he had scratches on his hands, so it is most likely that the leptospirosis bacteria entered the body through the scratches. The man was admitted to the infectious disease hospital on July 27, and yesterday, August 7, he was discharged from the hospital.
We will remind
Leptospirosis (eng. leptospirosis, syn. Weil’s or Weil-Vassiliev’s disease[2], Lanceret-Mathieu’s disease, Fiedler’s disease, Fort Bragg fever[3], ictero-hemorrhagic fever, water fever, wet meadow fever, Japanese seven-day fever , dog fever, rat fever, etc.) is an acute infectious disease from the group of zoonoses, which occurs with fever, general intoxication, damage to the kidneys, liver, cardiovascular, nervous systems, hemorrhagic syndrome.