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 is struggling with a record-breaking outbreak of a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection spread ...
There is an illness that is spreading in cities in New York State that is not only scary, it is caused by rat pee!
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 ...
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 issued a warning about the increase in transmitted bacterial illness spread by rat urine after 24 cases were reported in 2023, the most for any year. Only six cases ...
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 ...