New York City health officials are warning of a worrisome increase in the number of leptospirosis cases from contact with rat ...
The union representing New York City sanitation workers is demanding action after five garbage collectors got sick with a ...
New York City sanitation workers who collect trash and are often exposed to rats say they have been disparately represented ...
Leptospirosis can cause fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea, kidney or liver failure and meningitis.
NEW YORK-- There is a new phase in New York City's war on rats after the Health Department warned that in 2023 rat-related ...
New York City is struggling with a record-breaking outbreak of a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection spread ...
There were 24 cases of leptospirosis in NYC in 2023, higher than any prior year. The New York Department of Health and Mental ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Of the 24 people sickened in New York City last year from leptospirosis, a disease caused by rat urine, ...
There is an illness that is spreading in cities in New York State that is not only scary, it is caused by rat pee!
Rat urine is to blame for an uptick in flu-like illnesses across New York City, according to mayor Eric Adams. Leptospirosis is a potentially deadly bacterial infection that can be contracted ...