The union representing New York City sanitation workers is demanding action after five garbage collectors got sick with a ...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams detailed plans to get trash bags off the streets, saying "plastic bags mean rodents" Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...
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 ...
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 (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 ...
A life-threatening bacterial infection typically spread through rat urine sickened a record number of people in New York City last year—and this year looks on track for another all-time high ...
There were 24 cases of leptospirosis in NYC in 2023, higher than any prior year. The New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has released a health advisory after multiple cases of human ...
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – The union representing New York City sanitation workers is demanding action after five garbage collectors got sick with a potentially deadly disease. The disease ...