Human infections from rat urine on the rise in New York City

There were 24 cases of leptospirosis in NYC in 2023, higher than any prior year.

FILE - Rats swarm around a bag of garbage near a dumpster in New York, July 7, 2000. New York lawmakers are proposing rules to humanely drive down the population of rats and other rodents, eyeing contraception and a ban on glue traps as alternatives to poison or a slow, brutal death.

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