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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) – A potentially ...

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 ...

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 ...

We asked two rat researchers what would happen if the rodents disappeared overnight. New York City has been touting ... because of their association with disease and rooting around in garbage ...

New Yorkers are facing a rat problem that feels straight out of a movie — and it’s only getting worse. Recent reports estimate that millions of rats roam beneath the city’s streets and alleys, with ...

Rats can also be carriers other diseases, such as leptospirosis. This is a bacterial disease spread through rodent urine. NYC has had a recent uptick. Between 2006 and 2020, humans got only an ...