SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga: Cases of leptospirosis caused by rat’s urine have climbed to 300 in Zambales even as the provincial government is devising measures to reduce carriers of the deadly disease.

Since Monday, October 7, two weeks after the September 23 flooding, a record number of leptospirosis victims began flocking to the James L. Gordon Memorial Hospital in Olongapo City where authorities have recorded a total of 296 cases as of Thursday.

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