Leptospirosis in a Returning Traveller

M McNicol P Lynch and G Man

Abstract

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease which causes a variable spectrum of illness in humans, ranging from a selflimiting or subclinical illness, to the severe potentially fatal “Weil’s disease,” which can have a mortality of up to 50%. We present the case of a returning traveller presenting with vomiting, diarrhoea, jaundice and acute kidney injury.