The Big Apple Goes to the Rats - Frontpagemag

Over a dozen New Yorkers contracted leptospirosis and are suffering from liver and kidney failure. One of them is already dead. The symptoms of leptospirosis include fever, aches, and jaundice. Even those who survive can end up with brain damage.
In the last 14 years, there were only 57 cases in the Big Apple. Now there’s 15 in one year.
While leptospirosis is common in the third world, it's rare in the United States and was mostly seen in rural areas among farmers who work with livestock. That's because leptospirosis is spread through contact with animal urine and we don't live in cities infested with vermin.
Or at least we didn't until the Democrats and their radical environmental lobby got its way.