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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCities could be teeming with more rats, thanks to the shutdown's festering trash
Cities could be teeming with more rats, thanks to the shutdowns festering trash
Science Jan 4, 2019 8:13 PM EST
No one knows how long the partial government shutdown will last, but concerned Washington, D.C. citizens are confronting an unwitting consequence: an explosion of rats.
The National Parks Service is currently barred from collecting the overflowing garbage in national parks and monuments, including in the capital city. Smelly trash cans may be repulsive to us, but theyre manna for hungry pests.
When rats gorge themselves on lingering leftovers, they gain vital nutrients and proteins. Given an all-you-can-eat trash buffet, rats build up strength reserves and produce larger, healthier litters. More food means more rats, potentially for years to come.
The city-dwelling brown rat Rattus norvegicus carries diseases and can also bite through some forms of concrete and steel, so their populations represent a threat to public health and infrastructure when they expand.
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Cities could be teeming with more rats, thanks to the shutdown's festering trash (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jan 2019
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,930 posts)1. Government shutdown equals more rats.
How appropriate.
malaise
(269,328 posts)2. The biggest and nastiest rat is in the White House
What he spreads is worse than leptospirosis
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)4. Is some of that trash
near the White House or the Trump Hotel? Or maybe folks could just move it.
CountAllVotes
(20,884 posts)5. Yeah! We are now a sh*thole country!!!
Yippee!
DUMPTRUMP before the whole country becomes a GIANT DUMP!
DUMP DUMP DUMP TRUMP!!!!