A Canadian man found a rat in his toilet, and his month only got worse from there.
Thankfully, he was successfully treated.
The case wasdetailedthis January in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
A rat on top of a toilet bowl.Image: New Africa (Shutterstock)
Almost three weeks earlier, he had the misfortune of encountering a rat in his toilet bowl.
When he tried to remove the sewer animal, it bit two of his fingers.
Eventually, he was confirmed to have leptospirosis.
Severe leptospirosis can have a mortality rate as high as 15%.
What made this case stranger than most is that leptospirosis usually isnt caught from rat bites.
The bacteria isnt naturally shed in a rodents saliva but rather its urine.
Despite his serious illness, the man responded well to the antibiotics and other treatments.
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