Leptospirosis in urban Rats – new findings from the Vancouver Rat Project

The Vancouver Rat Project continues to produce new information of importance to public health and wildlife ecology.  This project is led by Dr. Chelsea Himsworth, the CCWHC‘s program coordinator in British Columbia.  This video, and a recent publication in the online scientific journal PLoS One, report new information on the ecology of Leptospira bacteria in rats in Vancouver’s downtown eastside.

For more information, please see the following:

News article and interview in the Vancouver Sun

Article about one of the students working on the project in WCVM Today

Previous Healthy Wildlife articles about the project: Article 1,  Article 2.