Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases (Jan 2000)
Leptospira Infections in Trappers from Ontario
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Four trappers presented to the Middlesex-London Health Unit in November, 1997 with similar clinical presentations. All four complained of fever, chills and headache, and three of the four had severe muscle aches. All gave histories of trapping raccoons before the onset of illness. Three of the four men exhibited diagnostic seroconversions to Leptospira grippotyphosa.