A disease spread by rats has been blamed for killing one person and sickening at least two others in a building in the New York City borough of the Bronx, reports CBS New York.
The city’s Health Department said two patients were diagnosed in December and one this month.
Residents are upset that they’re just finding out about the outbreak now, and are demanding that something be done about the ongoing rat problem.
Health Department employees were stationed in the lobby of 750 Grand Concourse in the Bronx with alarming news for residents: Within a one block radius, there’ve been three cases of leptospirosis — a bacterial infection most commonly spread by contact with rat urine.
A 43-year-old man was one of the infected residents.
In Spanish, he told CBS New York he feels better, but is still recovering after being treated with antibiotics.
It’s unacceptable to residents who say the rat problem’s been present in the building for years.
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SOURCE: CBS News