New York has new weapon to fight rats
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NEW York may soon have a new weapon in its arsenal against its endemic rodent population rat — birth control.
Rodents are spotted scurrying in and out of subway tracks or darting around trash bags dumped on the streets of America’s largest city for collection.
In 2015, the city invested nearly US$3 million on rat control after receiving a record 24,000-plus complaints amid alarm bells that the city was losing the rat war.
Officials are now preparing to launch a trial of a liquid bait which Arizona-based company SenesTech says makes rats infertile, but is otherwise non-toxic and does not damage the environment.
“We’re going to be launching a trial at some point in the future,” said a city official. No date had yet been set for the trial and officials were currently “working out” the details.
Columbia University statistician Jonathan Auerbach puts the number of the city’s rats at 2 million.
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