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Weil disease
infectious disease
Also known as: Weil’s disease, icteric leptospirosis
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leptospirosis
- In leptospirosis
…of the illness known as Weil disease or icteric (associated with jaundice) leptospirosis, the infected person turns yellow as a result of the destruction of red blood cells and liver disease. The death rate is approximately 30 percent of the severely ill and jaundiced patients.
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