Leptospirosis claims yet another victim:
I wonder if he knows where and how he might have been exposed? It's just not safe any more to go swimming in the streams, or to drink the water. Auwē!
Kaua'i man battling leptospirosis
A Kaua'i man continues to fight for his life at The Queen's Medical Center nearly five months after he was stricken with leptospirosis.
State Highways Division laborer Kimo Jardin, 26, lost both legs, his spleen and a large amount of muscle tissue from the virulent bacterial infection, but his mother said yesterday that just in the past week doctors reported he finally appears to be making slow progress toward healing, although his condition remains extremely critical.
(Honolulu Advertiser 5/26/05)
A Kaua'i man continues to fight for his life at The Queen's Medical Center nearly five months after he was stricken with leptospirosis.
State Highways Division laborer Kimo Jardin, 26, lost both legs, his spleen and a large amount of muscle tissue from the virulent bacterial infection, but his mother said yesterday that just in the past week doctors reported he finally appears to be making slow progress toward healing, although his condition remains extremely critical.
(Honolulu Advertiser 5/26/05)
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