but they're a real health-related crises," Mayor Eric Adams said. Last year was a record year for rat disease. From 2001 to 2020, New York City was averaging just three cases of human ...

They’re on a mission to put the city’s vermin problem to bed. The Adams administration is unleashing an $877,000 rat death ...

New teams will work alongside property owners in making New York City clean and pest-free, the mayor's office announced.

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration says it’s hiring new teams to exterminate rats from tunnels under trees on the street.

Cases in New York are largely associated with exposure to materials contaminated with rat urine from the Norway rat. The disease can cause fever, headache, chills, muscle aches, vomiting ...

The New York City Department of ... also be a life-threatening disease in canines. Dog to human transmission is rare. In early 2022, the suspected leptospirosis-related deaths of four dogs ...

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NYC has invested $877,000 in a task force to eradicate rats using carbon monoxide in tree beds, aiming for a significant kill ...

NEW YORK CITY (PIX11 ... collectors got sick with a potentially deadly disease. The disease, “leptospirosis,” is spread by contact with rat urine. The health department reported 24 ...

NEW YORK – A year after New York City anointed a czar for its war on rats, health officials are seeing a jump in cases of a rare disease linked to rat urine. Sanitation employees, who collect ...

A new study by scientists at the University of Missouri and the USDA identified the virus in New York City rats and also found that some species of the notoriously disease-riddled animals are ...