Many dogs not only love to bathe in large mud puddles–they also drink from them. However, this can have serious consequences.

As I write, my four-year-old dog is in an ICU at an emergency veterinary hospital. He has been diagnosed with Leptospirosis and is in organ failure. He is not even urinating or eating but seems happy ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – Chicago health officials are sounding the alarm over multiple recent cases of leptospirosis, a disease blamed for roughly 60,000 annual deaths globally. The Chicago Department of ...

In a new study, Yale School of Medicine (YSM) researchers unveiled a novel diagnostic method for detecting leptospiral virulence-modifying (VM) proteins in the blood and urine of hamsters, an advance ...