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tunately for us, the rat’s success Is almost invariably at our expense."
This year, in the United States alone, rats will bite thousands of humans and destroy about SI billion worth of property, excluding countless fires they will cause by gnawing electrical in* sulation. They will destroy about a fifth of the world’s food crops.
Rats and their parasites will spread at least 20 kinds of disease, from typhus to trichinosis to the deadly Lassa fever. In Asia, Africa, , and the Americas—including the Western States—people will die of plague, borne by the rats’ parasites. The war against the fourlegged menace is worldwide. Rat control is a matter of human survival in Asia, where rats consume enough rice each year to feed a quarter of a billion people. There is new hope: After thousands of hours of experimenting, American and Philippine scientists have found they can cut crop
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