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Diseased rat urine has killed at the least one man or woman
and sickened two others in NY metropolis in an outbreak of a not often seen
contamination, prompting calls from town officials on Wednesday for a renewed
effort to cull the rodent population.
The outbreak of leptospirosis started out in December and
all three instances had been traced to a unmarried block in the Bronx, big
apple's northernmost borough. metropolis officers said on Wednesday it became
the primary ever "cluster" of cases within the town's history.
Leptospirosis is a bacterial infection spread with the aid
of rodents and different animals which could motive fever, vomiting and kidney
damage. it is able to be treated with antibiotics however is once in a while
deadly.
