Jack Osbourne is recounting his harrowing experience after contracting leptospirosis, a bacterial disease caused by rat urine.
During the April 23 episode of The Osbournes Podcast, the 38-year-old reflected on his hospitalization with parents Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne and sister Kelly Osbourne.
“I got leptospirosis, which is just like a crazy viral disease. Yeah, that sucked,” he said.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Leptospirosis can spread to humans through breaks in the skin and mucous membranes (eyes, mouth, nose) from being around urine from an infected rodent.
“I’d gone and done some filming in a place called Bario in Malaysia, and we were doing a jungle track,” Jack explained. “I got really sick when I got out of the jungle but it took about two weeks.”
After leaving Malaysia, Jack said he was on a trip in Lapland, Finland, when he started experiencing symptoms. “I got really sick up there… I literally was dying. This wasn’t like a fake thing,” he said.
Kelly, 39, chimed in and said that mom Sharon, 71, was “screaming her head off” and “calling the military” because she was so scared for his health.
“Having a tropical disease when you’re in Finnish Lapland... they were looking at me like, ‘We don’t know what to do.’ So I got medevaced to Helsinki,” Jack said. “I get put into the university hospital there. No one speaks English so I get flown to London.”
He continued, “At this point, I’m like five days into my body legitimately shutting down and I’m lying in this bed, I haven’t eaten, my kidneys and liver are like going into failure and I'm like, ‘Uh, I’m freaking losing it.’”
Jack said he had six doctors and none of them could diagnose him, panicking because some were even throwing out possible diagnoses like malaria and HIV. However, he was later able to get properly diagnosed and treated.
“This guy who was the head of tropical diseases for the NHS, he’s like the number one guy, left and at 7 a.m. comes running into my room days later like, ‘I’ve got it!’ " he recalled.
“I had Weil's disease, which is leptospirosis,” Jack said. “I got it because I’ve got leech bites on the bottom of my feet. I was swimming and bathing in a river and we were climbing on rocks and jumping into this jungle river and I stepped in a puddle on this boulder and it had rat’s piss in it.”
In humans, Leptospirosis can cause a wide range of symptoms, including high fever, chills, vomiting, and jaundice (yellow skin and eyes), among others. However, some infected persons may have no symptoms at all. If left untreated, it can lead to kidney damage, meningitis (inflammation of the membrane around the brain and spinal cord), liver failure, respiratory distress, or death, according to the CDC.
To prevent the spread of the disease, health officials recommend wearing protective clothing or footwear when exposed to potentially contaminated water or soil.
Leptospirosis is treated with antibiotics, such as doxycycline or penicillin, which the CDC states should be given early in the course of the disease.
The Quran - Chapter Al-Jathiyah : 24 - 27
And they argue, “There is nothing beyond our worldly life. We die; others are born. And nothing destroys us but ˹the passage of˺ time.” Yet they have no knowledge ˹in support˺ of this ˹claim˺. They only speculate.
And whenever Our clear revelations are recited to them, their only argument is to say: “Bring our forefathers back, if what you say is true!”
Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “˹It is˺ Allah ˹Who˺ gives you life, then causes you to die, then will gather you ˹all˺ on the Day of Judgment, about which there is no doubt. But most people do not know.”
To Allah ˹alone˺ belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. On the Day the Hour will be established, the people of falsehood will then be in ˹total˺ loss.
وَمَا يُهْلِكُنَا إِلَّا الدَّهْرُ "...and nothing destroys us except time...(45:24) " The word dahr means ` time from the beginning of the world to its end'. It also refers to ` a very long period of time'. The atheists alleged that their life and death have nothing to do with Divine will and command.
They happen under natural causes. Death is a process which they say they experience when their human limbs, organs and abilities diminish on account of constant use and, with the passage of time, the matter becomes dissolved and is destroyed; and that this is the be-all and end-all of human existence, there being no life hereafter. Likewise, life has nothing to do with Divine will and command. Life too, like death, happens under movement of material causes.
Reviling Time Is Inappropriate
Atheists believed that ` Time' is the cause of life, death, vicissitudes of conditions and adversities, and also the cause of the revolution of the entire universe.
Every happening used to be attributed to ` Time' by them as indicated in this verse, whereas the fact is that everything happens with the Divine will and volition.
Therefore, authentic Traditions prohibit reviling of time. The power which the unbelievers describe as ` time' is in fact the Divine power.
When people curse or revile time for their adversities, they are in fact directing their reproach to Allah.
The Messenger of Allah said: "Do not revile time because time actually is Allah." The ignorant who claim that a particular work was done by time is actually the work of Divine power - time is nothing.
It does not necessarily follow from this proposition that ad-dahr is one of the names of Allah. Here Allah is referred to as ad-dahr metaphorically or figuratively.
