Leptospirosis -- Australia
[The patient] could have been dead in days. The 70-year-old Dunedoo pub owner caught a deadly infection from the mice plaguing NSW [New South Wales], leaving him in hospital with acute kidney failure, liver failure and a leaky heart valve.
[The mouse plague this news article apparently is referring to regards the loss of farm crops due to increasing numbers of mice, which have devastated eastern Australia, from northern parts of Queensland down to South Australia, including New South Wales
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?8403534&promed&0
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