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.

There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth but scientists are warning that cities across the US and beyond are becoming far rattier, and t ...

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

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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 ...

What diseases are carried by rats? Brown rats carry diseases such as “leptospirosis or Weil's disease, salmonella, listeria, ...

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 ...

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

“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.