Leptospirosis: The Waterborne Disease Vaccination Prevents
Spread through rat urine in standing water, it causes kidney and liver failure, it transmits to people, and the vaccine is the main defence.
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Spread through rat urine in standing water, it causes kidney and liver failure, it transmits to people, and the vaccine is the main defence.
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