never thought i d be talkinggh be tt rat. dr. nicole that s right. john well, and we re talking about rats, and i m not talking and s in. politician r new york city. i m talking about actual rats. and so what we re talking about, we re seeing a rise in leptospirosis cases. now. coptospirosis very zoonotic bacterial infection that tends to really just infect animals.ut but if a human ingests the thl, infected anima the human can get sick themselves. new york citl y alone for 2 the last two decades have an averag dgee of about three cases a year. last year, 24 cases over. 6 they already have about six cases this year. whwhy is that?s well, new york city has a rat problem. there are far too many rats. the homeless population is the perfect breeding ground for rats. and so now eeding the mayor has a news tras plan. he wants trash in garbage bins and he wantsh bins give birth cl to the rats. so what they have to do is they have to continually slowly eat these super sweet pellets that wi