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Water Fever

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Water Fever 

nonicteric leptospirosis, an acute infectious disease, one of the intestinal diseases. It is spread mainly by contaminated water. The causative agent is Leptospira grippotyphosa. The reservoir of the infection is mouselike rodents and some domestic animals. Water fever was first described by the Soviet scientist V. A. Bashenin in 1928.



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Mineral water fever hit England hard in the 18th Century, and Continental Europe too, for that matter.
 
 
 
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