Watch out for this rat pack. Leptospirosis cases are on the rise, and after a health advisory was issued last week, New Yorkers are on high alert for the frightening disease that’s carried in rat ...

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 the city ...

Human infections from rat urine are on the rise in New York City. The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued a health advisory, saying there were 24 reported cases of human leptospirosis ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – A potentially deadly disease found in rat urine is on the rise in New York City, according to health officials. The disease, called leptospirosis, can easily spread in a city that ...

Dear Doctor: Our youngest daughter is starting college in New York City this fall, and on top of all the empty-nest emotions my husband and I are dealing with, a friend has warned us about something ...

Local cases of the infectious disease leptospirosis, which in New York City is largely associated with exposure to rat urine, are continuing to trend upward, the city’s health department warned in an ...

Jack Osbourne revealed there was a time he was near death after contracting leptospirosis, a bacterial disease caused by rat urine. During the April 23 episode of “The Osbournes Podcast,” he and his ...

Dear Doctor: Our youngest daughter is starting college in New York City this fall, and on top of all the empty nest emotions my husband and I are dealing with, a friend has warned us about something ...

Health officials are reporting an increase in a rare but serious infectious disease spread by rodents — just four months after Gene Hackman’s wife, the concert pianist Betsy Arakawa, died from it. A ...

Droppings and urine from rodents and birds discovered at a Minnesota distribution facility have resulted in a recall of ...

NEW YORK -- The New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has released a health advisory after multiple cases of human leptospirosis -- an infection that is associated to exposure to rat urine ...