BRONX, New York -- There are three cases of a bacterial infection caused by rat urine, one of them fatal, in the Bronx according to city officials. According to the Borough President's Office, it is ...

New York City is struggling with a record-breaking outbreak of a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection spread through exposure to rat urine, according to a recent report from the city’s ...

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, the NYC ...

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 ...

A new study has unveiled that many rats in the Southeastern United States (US) have been infected with a rat lungworm disease. Scientifically known as Angiostrongylus cantonensis, the adult form of ...

The effects of exposure of rats to repeated low-level (trickle) infections with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis were assessed by measuring intestinal and lung worm burdens. Worm recoveries from the ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The city is seeing a rise in cases of human leptospirosis, a disease caused by rat urine, which if left untreated can cause kidney failure and liver damage. Last year the city saw ...

The "rat squad" is IA, Internal Affairs, and they don't usually wear uniforms. You know who really doesn't like snitches? Cops. My uncle got drummed out of his first police job because he was an ...