New
York City is investigating three recent cases — one of them fatal — of a
rare disease transmitted through rat urine that have occurred in the
Grand Concourse neighborhood of the Bronx, according to the Department
of Health and Mental Hygiene.
This is the first time a cluster of the cases of the disease, leptospirosis,
has been identified, according to an alert issued by the department on
Tuesday. From 2006 to 2016, 26 cases were reported in the city; the
Bronx had the highest number, eight.
The
three most recent cases occurred in the past two months. All the
patients became severely sick and were hospitalized with acute kidney
and liver failure, the health department said. One died as a result of
an infection. The two who survived have been released from the hospital.
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Source: The New York Times
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