Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The southern state of Rio Grande do Sul was hit by unprecedented floods this month - NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP via Getty Images More than ...

The Hawaii Department of Health and Hawaiian Humane Society are urging residents and recovery workers to monitor for signs of leptospirosis in the aftermath of the “Kona low” storm floods.

The Centers for Disease Control removed Leptospirosis from the reportable human diseases list, but there is still significant concern over this zoonotic disease. Our pets are susceptible to lepto as ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Of the 24 people sickened in New York City last year from leptospirosis, a disease caused by rat urine, five of those cases were garbage collectors. The union for Department of ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The city is seeing a rise in cases of human leptospirosis, a disease caused by rat urine, which if left untreated can cause kidney failure and liver damage. Last year the city saw ...

Local cases of the infectious disease leptospirosis, which in New York City is largely associated with exposure to rat urine, are continuing to trend upward, the city’s health department warned in an ...

Corkscrew-shaped Leptospira and the potentially deadly disease they cause are tricky to study. The bacteria live in the kidneys of animals where they may or may not cause symptoms, and they are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO — Just a day after city health officials announced an uptick in cases of rat-borne leptospirosis, officials have confirmed ...

The growing number of storms and floods associated with climate change is increasing the risk of a serious human infection—and Australia's rural communities are underprepared. That's the stark warning ...

New Haven, Conn. — In a new study, Yale School of Medicine (YSM) researchers unveiled a novel diagnostic method for detecting leptospiral virulence-modifying (VM) proteins in the blood and urine of ...

Fiji Medical Association president Dr Apilate Vakamocea says combining symptoms with epidemiological data can improve early ...