New viruses, superbugs found in study of New York house mice (Lexington: apartment, tenants)

[leoliu]

Anybody surprised by this?? I am more surprised that it made to CNN headlines...


https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/17/healt...udy/index.html
(CNN)House mice don't carry door keys, but they can freely enter any residence in New York City, from low-rent studios to penthouse suites.

A yearlong assessment of the city's residential mouse population found that what many of these rodents do carry are previously unseen viruses as well as bacteria capable of causing life-threatening human illness. Some of the bacteria were even antibiotic-resistant.
"Mouse droppings may contain harmful bacteria that are difficult to treat with common antibiotics," said Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, senior author of the two papers resulting from the study and a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. "Contaminated areas should be thoroughly cleaned, and contaminated food should be discarded."
Lipkin's research was published Tuesday in mBio, the journal of the American Society for Microbiology.
'More worrisome' than rats

[BugsyPal]

Well this should give pause to all those "dumpster divers" and others who dig through garbage bags for food.


Already gives a pass to restaurant/food places with less than an "A" health department rating. But sometimes even those with a top rating still have mice galore.


Before Chirping Chicken moved from Lexington and 85th you'd walk pass that place at night and see large numbers of mice running around through the windows. Yet the place had and "A" rating proudly displayed on front window.

[NyWriterdude]

Ved Parkash, the city's absolute worst landlord, had such a severe rat infestation in one of his buildings one of his tenants died.

"Three people within a one-block radius of the building has become seriously ill with rare rat-borne disease leptospirosis over the past two months. One of them has since died."

https://therealdeal.com/2017/02/15/v...g-ground-city/

NYC does not properly throw away food. I'm in Barcelona and here the city itself puts rodent proof giant bins on the street. Since they recycle, organic items are placed in a separate bin from other recycleables, and you don't even see rats scurrying around these bins at night. What happens in apartment buildings store trash with food in them and rats come in and go into the garbage bags or open trash cans to get the food.

This is a failure of public sanitation in the city and if the city does not address it one day it maybe bubonic plague round 2.