The Department of Health is urging the public to take preventive measures as cases of foodborne diseases, influenza-like ...

After an investigation that began in October of last year, Ventura County Public Health identified 19 people who had illnesses ...

Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that causes illness in humans through contact with infected animal urine and contaminated water. It is not a disease that spreads from person to person; when ...

Leptospirosis begins with symptoms such as a fever and headache, just like the symptoms of an ordinary cold. That similarity means that in a large number of cases the disease goes unnoticed until it ...

C orkscrew-shaped Leptospira and the potentially deadly disease they cause are tricky to study. The bacteria live in the kidneys of animals where they may or may not cause symptoms, and they are ...