The union representing New York City sanitation workers is demanding action after five garbage collectors got sick with a ...
New York City health officials are warning of a worrisome increase in the number of leptospirosis cases from contact with rat ...
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.
A potentially deadly disease found in rat urine is on the rise in New York City, according to health officials. The disease, ...
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 ...
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 health officials are warning residents about an increase in transmitted bacterial illness spread by rat urine.
Rats have for long been an unfamous staple of New York City, but their presence has lately gone from mostly unpleasant to a ...
The department reports sightings have declined in 11 of the 12 months year over year since the effort to manage 44 million ...
Whether or not Bostonians are seeking out rats this way, the public does notice them. Rat complaints made to the city’s 311 ...