Emerging Diseases

Outbreak in Nicaragua Is Identified as Rare Form of Leptospirosis

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 13th, 1995

In Nicaragua, the 16 deaths caused by the recent outbreak of disease are now attributed to an unusual form of Leptospirosis, not dengue fever, as originally believed.

"It was kind of an international detective hunt to find out what was killing these people, and I think they found it remarkably quickly," Daniel Epstein, information officer, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) told Blood Weekly.

The Nicaraguan Health Ministry, along with health experts from PAHO, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been working together to discover the cause of the disease. The outbreak occurred in...

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