As restaurants and other businesses have closed during the coronavirus pandemic, rats may become more aggressive as they hunt for new sources of food, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned. Environmental health and rodent control programs may see an increase in service requests related to “unusual or aggressive” rodent behaviour, the agency said on its website on Thursday. “The rats are not becoming aggressive toward people, but toward each other,” Bobby Corrigan, an urban rodentologist who has both a master’s degree and PhD in rodent pest management, said Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of rats in Chicago have started boldly searching for food, travelling farther and during the daytime. Corrigan said pest control professionals in the city have sent him photos of rodent cannibalization and slaughter.

Source: bd News24 May 25, 2020 02:03 UTC