Rodent-borne infectious disease outbreaks after flooding disasters: Epidemiology, management, and prevention.

CONCLUSIONS: Healthcare providers should maintain high levels of suspicion for LS in patients developing febrile illnesses after contaminated freshwater exposures following heavy rainfall, flooding, and even freshwater recreational events; and for Hantavirus-caused infectious diseases in patients with hemorrhagic fevers that progress rapidly to respiratory or renal failure following rodent exposures. PMID: 26663308 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: American Journal of Disaster Medicine - Category: Global & Universal Tags: Am J Disaster Med Source Type: research