{"id":11763,"date":"2026-04-01T15:08:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11763"},"modified":"2026-04-13T07:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:09:42","slug":"health-officials-warn-of-leptospirosis-risk-after-hawaii-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/04\/01\/health-officials-warn-of-leptospirosis-risk-after-hawaii-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Health officials warn of leptospirosis risk after Hawaii floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/2026\/03\/31\/breaking-news\/health-officials-warn-of-leptospirosis-risk-after-hawaii-floods\/\">Honolulu Star Advertiser<\/a> The Hawaii Department of Health and Hawaiian Humane Society are urging residents and recovery workers to monitor for signs of leptospirosis in the aftermath of the \u201cKona low\u201d storm floods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/health.hawaii.gov\/docd\/disease_listing\/leptospirosis\/\">Leptospirosis&nbsp;Opens in a new tab<\/a>&nbsp;is a potentially serious bacterial illness that can affect both people and pets. It is caused by Leptospira, which is carried in the urine of infected animals, including rats, mice, mongoose, livestock, and dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bacteria enter the body through broken skin or through the mouth, nose, or eyes. People can also become exposed through direct contact with the urine, blood or tissues of an infected animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/2026\/03\/31\/breaking-news\/health-officials-warn-of-leptospirosis-risk-after-hawaii-floods\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"SsIDcivyS nHhLfBXLLH Dea OCNe\"><!-- SsIDcivyS nHhLfBXLLH Dea OCNe --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honolulu Star Advertiser The Hawaii Department of Health and Hawaiian Humane Society are urging residents and recovery workers to monitor for signs of leptospirosis in the aftermath of the \u201cKona low\u201d storm floods. Leptospirosis&nbsp;Opens in a new tab&nbsp;is a potentially serious bacterial illness that can affect both people and pets. It is caused by Leptospira, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11848,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763\/revisions\/11848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}