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 ...

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 ...

Berkeley declares health emergency as leptospirosis outbreak forces homeless encampment evacuations. Multiple rats and dogs ...

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 ...

“I got really sick up there… I literally was dying," the 38-year-old reality TV star recalled on 'The Osbournes Podcast' Kevin Winter/Getty Jack Osbourne is recalling his near-death experience after ...

Rats don’t just break into your food, gnaw at your stuff, and leave droppings everywhere—they also happen to be effective at spreading viruses to human beings through their droppings, urine, and ...

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 ...