Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO (WGN) – After multiple cases of rat-borne leptospirosis were reported in Chicago, city officials are sounding the alarm.

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 ...

Pet owners are encouraged to watch out for signs of a 'serious zoonotic disease' that can pass from animals to people. Whilst the condition is fairly rare in Britain, cases typically emerge following ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – Chicago health officials are sounding the alarm after multiple cases of leptospirosis have been reported. The Chicago Department of Public Health said a total of six cases have been ...

The Lafourche Parish Animal Shelter will close some of its services this week after a dog that had been kept there tested positive for a bacterial disease called leptospirosis. Shelter Manager Hilary ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Puerto Rico has reported at least 76 cases of suspected and confirmed leptospirosis, including a handful of deaths, in the month after Hurricane Maria, said Dr. Carmen Deseda, the state ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WGN) – Chicago health officials are sounding the alarm over multiple recent cases of leptospirosis, a disease blamed for roughly 60,000 annual deaths globally. The Chicago Department of ...