The art of ‘war’
Mar 03, 2020
3 minutes
There is no doubt that the brown rat is one of nature’s success stories. It is equally at home in the biggest of cities or the most rural parts of the countryside. It will take advantage of any food source and it is the carrier of some potentially deadly infections such as Weil’s disease and murine typhus, as well as salmonella, parasites, viruses and worms.
Rattus norvegicus has been a resident in the UK since the early 18th century and has now almost completely displaced
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