Water Fever
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
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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