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wrote on Dec 25, 2010:
Leptospirosis or Weil's disease as it is also known is very dangerous and nasty, if not treated quickly. The problem being is that the symptoms in the early stages are flu like.
Some years ago the Crawley Caving & Climbing Club here in the UK had a long weekend caving trip Mendip in Somerset, where we visited a cave system called Stoke Lane Slocker a cave system I would think Caving Liz will be familiar with, as she has caved in that area. Anyway the stream which feed the cave passes through a farmyard which as you can guess makes the stream rather rich in cow muck.
Four days after the trip, two of the guys developed flu like symptoms, jokingly we blamed the high levels of Butcombe best bitter and Badgers screech which had been consumed over the weekend. By the next weekend both where in hospital, both in intensive care, with renal failure, and one sadly died, the other never did get back to full health.
What amazes me, is how people in Malaysia are happy to play in the various pools provided in the parks, with no regard or even maybe any knowledge of the fact that if rats are around then Leptospirosis or Weil’s disease is most likely around as well.
And when you see the amount of rubbish left in the parks, then the rats will be there for sure.
When I was a young soldier many years ago during the emergency period, we where well aware of the danger, that if rats urine infected the streams we often waded through, if we had any sores or open wounds, we knew could get infected, and we monitored any symptoms we might develop .
One things for sure I never bath in the pools, or upper stream ways in the parks if I see rubbish around. And my advice to anyone who starts to get flu like syptoms and or renal problems best to get it checked out tuut sweet.
Nice to have cheered you all up.
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