Although floodwaters have receded in North Queensland, a waterborne illness has killed several dogs in recent days.

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 urine.

“Rats are associated with more than 50 pathogens that affect people,” which they transfer through their urine, feces, saliva ...

THE Bacolod City Health Office (CHO) has intensified its information dissemination on appropriate garbage management and ...

Leptospirosis is also challenging for the neighboring island of Reunion, part of France. Since January of this year, 204 cases of infection have been recorded there. All because of a rat plague ...

This disease is spread by animal urine. A rare bacterial infection, leptospirosis or rat fever is caused by the urine of infected rats, dogs and farm animals. An alert has been issued for ...

Pink Storage owner Scott Evans explains that piles of old newspapers; cardboard boxes and old clothing are all optimum places ...

A source alerted PlymouthLive to concerns after they claimed that they had entered the food storage area of the Plymstock ...

This disease is spread by animal urine. An alert has been issued for leptospirosis, or rat fever in Kerala as the rising cases of the disease in the flood hit areas of Kozhikode breeds this rare ...

“As we see climates warming, we're expecting to see more rats in urban areas," she said. “And we are already seeing increases of leptospirosis in the Northeast in humans and in dogs.

Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease caused ... is through exposure to the urine of infected animals -mainly rats- or contaminated soil and water. In humans, symptoms can include fever, headache ...

These include Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS), Leptospirosis, Rat-Bite Fever, Salmonellosis, Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis (LCMV), Plague, Typhus, Tularemia and Rickettsial Infections.