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.

If you have been keeping an eye on the news recently, you will have read about an uptick in human cases of leptospirosis being treated at the hospital. This is certainly newsworthy because it is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...