HEALTH CONCERNS
‘Rats can be controlled but never eradicated’
Across many cities, residents face what some call a plague of super-rats.
The term is used around the world to describe rats that have become bolder and have developed a degree of resistance to the poisons normally used to kill them.
These armies of rats have not only become a problem in urban areas across South Africa: they are overrunning cities like Paris, New York and Sydney.
What is driving them is the easy availability of food.
“And it is high-protein stuff so these guys
