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 ...

Rats in Boston may be spreading a potentially deadly disease, according to a Tufts University study. The disease is called leptospirosis, which is caused by a bacterium called Leptospira. It is ...

The Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) has warned of a looming new epidemic in Gaza amid plummeting health and ...

Last year, New York City saw 24 cases of human leptospirosis — the highest number in a single year. Six cases have been reported so far this year, the city’s department of health and mental hygiene ...

Map of New South Wales showing clustering of canine cases of leptospirosis in Greater Sydney and the South Coast (A), whereas human leptospirosis cases were mainly centered around the North Coast with ...

In a new study, Yale School of Medicine (YSM) researchers unveiled a novel diagnostic method for detecting leptospiral virulence-modifying (VM) proteins in the blood and urine of hamsters, an advance ...

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 ...

Darla Miles has more on the rise in cases of human leptospirosis, a disease caused by rat urine. Adams said total success would be no more rats. "I don't think any rodent can traumatize you any more ...