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CDC Warns Of Aggressive Rodents Due to Lack of Food Resulting from Lockdowns

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published a new warning that rats across the country are becoming hungry as they scavenge for food amid the closure of restaurants triggered by COVID-19 lockdowns.

“Community-wide closures have led to a decrease in food available to rodents, especially in dense commercial areas. Some jurisdictions have reported an increase in rodent activity as rodents search for new sources of food. Environmental health and rodent control programs may see an increase in service requests related to rodents and reports of unusual or aggressive rodent behavior,” the CDC warning read.

The CDC said some regions have reported “an increase in rodent activity” and cautioned about their aggressive behavior.

Stressed-out and aggressive rats in major US cities could become a regular occurrence until the rat population normalizes, Zero Hedge reported.

“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 Ph.D. in rodent pest management, said on Sunday. “They’re simply turning on each other”, The NY Times reported

The Times stated:

Dr. Corrigan said there are certain colonies of rats in New York that have depended on restaurants’ nightly trash for hundreds of generations, coming out of the sewers and alleys to ravage the bags left on the streets. With the shutdown, all of that went away, leaving rats hungry and desperate.

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