Weil's disease
Rodent-transmitted bacterial illness
Weil's disease is a severe form of leptospirosis, a bacterial infection transmitted through water or soil contaminated by infected animal urine—particularly from rats.
Symptoms include jaundice, kidney failure, and bleeding.
The disease poses occupational risks for farmers, sewage workers, and others exposed to contaminated water: He contracted Weil's disease after swimming in the canal.
- contaminated waterImpure liquid with pathogens
- jaundiceYellowing from bile pigment
- feverElevated body temperature
- high feverElevated body temperature, alarming
- floodwatersOverflow from swollen waterways
dirty water · swimming hole · antibiotics · kidney failure · zoonosis · hemorrhage · canal · rat · tropical regions · sewage · sewer worker · agricultural workers · farm worker · spirochete · chills · doxycycline · meningitis · muscle pain
- leptospirosisspirochete, doxycycline, penicillin, antibiotic treatment, contaminated water
- spirochete diseasessyphilis, yaws, pinta, spirochete, tertiary syphilis
Weil's diseasetuberculosis
Mycobacterial lung disease
measles · influenza · COVID-19 · whooping cough · chickenpox
Weil's diseasehealth
Condition of body, mind
wellness · good health · vitality · robust health · well-being
Weil's diseasegenetic disorders
Conditions caused by mutations
hereditary conditions · autoimmune diseases · congenital defects · Huntington's disease · cystic fibrosis