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BANTUL, KOMPAS.com - As many as 45 residents of Bantul, DI Yogyakarta exposed to leptospirosis. Five of them dead. However, the local government has not declared itself to be extraordinary event or outbreak. Though the number of cases surged rapidly over the last year.

Based on data from the health department in Bantul district, cases of leptospirosis in 2009 recorded nine cases, one of them dead. This year the disease is transmitted through rat urine, many residents in the district attacking Sedayu and Sewon.

Bantul District Health Office Head, Dr. Siti Noor Zaenab Syech Said, Wednesday (02/06/2010) says so far it has not set an outbreak. Although there is increasing twice as much, there should be no outbreaks of political determination by the regents. "The important thing is prevention efforts in concrete terms," he said.

He says that the cases of leptospirosis in Bantul, one of them because the area's position as the downstream areas. "All rivers flow from north to south flowing across Bantul. Water becomes fertile medium for the transmission of leptospirosis. With a simple urine of rats and other animals flowing into the river," he said.