NEW YORK-- There is a new phase in New York City's war on rats after the Health Department warned that in 2023 rat-related sickness soared to the highest level in a single year. They are ...
NEW YORK CITY - NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced the inaugural National Urban Rat Summit will take place in September.
New York City sanitation workers who collect trash and are often exposed to rats say they have been disparately represented ...
NEW YORK (PIX11) – A potentially deadly disease found in rat urine is on the rise in New York City, according to health officials. The disease, called leptospirosis, can easily spread in a city ...
The disease, “leptospirosis,” is spread by contact with rat urine. The health department reported 24 cases of it last year, five of which were sanitation workers. Their union ...
Mayor Eric Adams, who has made his hatred of rats a central talking point, said Wednesday that New York City will host a ...
Mayor Eric Adams has made rat mitigation a cornerstone of his administration, launching a series of anti-rat initiatives.
New York City health officials issued a warning about the increase in transmitted bacterial illness spread by rat urine after 24 cases were reported in 2023, the most for any year. Only six cases ...
This historic decline in rat sightings coincides with a tidal wave of change to the management of 44 million pounds of trash ...
NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) – The union representing New York City sanitation workers is demanding action after five garbage collectors got sick with a potentially deadly disease. The disease ...
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 ...