Jack Osbourne Reveals He Contracted a Rare Disease From Rat Urine
Jack Osbourne recalled a terrifying brush with death after inadvertently coming into contact with rat urine while while on location filming a reality show years earlier. And despite being treated by a crack team of medical experts, it sounds very much as though he's lucky to be alive.
Metal icon’s son recalls almost dying after stepping in rat urine, contracting life-threatening disease
Per the Cleveland Clinic, a person can contract leptospirosis after “getting water or soil contaminated by animal pee (urine) in your nose, your mouth, your eyes or a break in your skin.” The disease can cause “flu-like symptoms that can worsen into Weil’s syndrome, a life-threatening illness, in a small number of people.”
Despite availability of an effective vaccine, veterinarian Emmanuelle Butty still sees dogs with the serious disease.
Rats in New York City are becoming more than a nuisance. The New York City Department of Health has released a health ...
North Queenslanders with no access to the canine leptospirosis vaccine are losing their dogs to the serious bacterial disease ...
Emmanuelle Butty, med.vet., DACVIM (SAIM), assistant clinical professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, sometimes ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Of the 24 people sickened in New York City last year from leptospirosis, a disease caused by rat urine, ...
New York City city reported 24 cases of leptospirosis in 2023, the highest case count ever, and 6 so far in 2024.
New York City is facing "a real problem" with rats. The rodents have caused a public health concern due to rising cases of ...
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