Published: July 21, 2019
Clover Moore says construction boom has stirred up rats that potentially carry leptospirosis bacteria
Sydney’s council ratcatchers will double their efforts to thin a growing rodent horde that is potentially responsible for the deaths of seven dogs due to a rare disease spread by rodent urine.
Leptospirosis, a bacterial infection that can kill dogs in 48 hours and is also fatal to humans, had never caused a canine death in New South Wales. But in the past three months there have been seven.
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