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Fed up, they are now fighting back. They have formed a WhatsApp group named “The rats at DuPont circle” where more than 120 residents swap hair-raising photos and stories and are putting ...

But I don’t see a rat. I see a valuable crime- and disease-fighting buddy. Since 2010, trained African giant pouched rats like this one have sniffed out around 160,000 landmines and other ...

a newly formed "elite squad of anti-rat activists" created by the mayor's office to escalate the fight against the city's infamous pests. "Elite" is a bit of a stretch, like calling the local Cub ...

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Concerned Peterborough resident Ian Graham said he had seen rats "running around in broad daylight" nearby and watched "seagulls fight rats" over food there. Peterborough City Council said it was ...

It has been 1,882 Leptospirosis (Rat fever) patients in the Ratnapura District last year and of them 22 patients died of ...