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INSIDECOSTARICA.COM |  CENTRAL AMERICA NEWS |    Saturday 11 December 2010

Honduras Launches Campaign to Prevent Leptospirosis

TEGUCIGALPA -  Students of the national autonomous University of Honduras, are promoting a campaign to prevent leptospirosis, which already caused a death.

Students of journalism made a call on Thursday to make the population aware of the threat posed by the bacterial disease.

The purpose of the campaign is to educate students and youth in cleaning up schools and homes to avoid the proliferation of rodents, whose urine transmits the disease to human beings.

The National University launched the initiative in the midst of a leptospirosis outbreak that infected 27 Hondurans and killed a 10-year-old child in the department of Choluteca.

Several Central American countries are trying to stop the infection, caused by floods and heavy rains of the wet season just ended.

In neighboring Nicaragua, the nation worst hit, there were 16 deaths and 146 infections.

 

 

 

 
 
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