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life-threatening bacterial infection typically spread through rat urine sickened a record number of people in NYC last year—and this year looks on track for another all-time high, the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reports.
The infection is leptospirosis
health advisory released last week, the city's health department advised clinicians to be on the lookout for cases - 2024 Health Advisory
Continued Increase in Leptospirosis Cases
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https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/han/advisory/2024/han-advisory-10.pdf
@ecksmc Totally tangential, but leptospirosis may have made the European settlement of New England possible.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957993/