A deadly disease spread by rat urine infected two people living in a filthy RV near a homeless encampment in California — with one patient dying after a lengthy hospitalization.
The two victims were living in a rat-infested RV about a mile from the homeless encampment at Eighth and Harrison streets in Berkeley, where officials later linked an outbreak of the same disease to rats.
“Both individuals had been living in a severely rat-infested RV about one mile from the Harrison Street encampment. Tragically, one of the patients died and one recovered after a lengthy hospitalization,” a city memo released in June said.
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