New York Gets Technical To Eliminate Rats .. Starting In Bronx
Juan Cardenas was tossing his trash into a garbage can in his Bronx apartment last summer when something suddenly appeared on his arm. It wasn’t a loose piece of trash _ it was a rat.
“I was traumatized,” said Cardenas, 21. “I screamed and ran.”
Cardenas is just one of the millions of New Yorkers who have been terrorized by the red-eyed rodents. But help could soon be on the way.
The city Health Department recently launched a program in the Bronx in which inspectors equipped with hand-held computers canvass neighborhoods in search of evidence of rat infestations. They will then develop a neighborhood rodent profile to better target infestations.
“No one wants to live in a neighborhood with a serious rat problem,” said Dan Kass, who worked on designing the program. “They are capable of contaminating food supplies. They damage utility pipes and electrical wires.”
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