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Before the advent of anticoagulants, phosphides were the favored kind of rat poison. During World War II, they came into use in United States because of shortage of strychnine due to the Japanese occupation of the territories where the strychnine tree is grown. Phosphides are rather fast-acting rat poisons, resulting in the rats dying usually ...
The active compound in this rat poison was thallium sulphate, imported from Germany. [5] Its advantages as a rodenticide, that it was odorless and practically tasteless and swift acting, were also realised by amateur poisoners; it was also inexpensive, required no licence to purchase, gave symptoms similar to known diseases, and one gram was ...
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The bill, which passed Thursday, green-lighted a program that will put a contraceptive pellet called ContraPest in special rat-accessible containers across parts of the city, according to PIX 11.
It's the latest attempt New York City has made to control its bustling rat population. Besides poison, they've tried traps, keeping trash in containers, a "rat czar" and even "rat academies" to ...
d-CON is an America brand of rodent control products, which is distributed and owned in the United States by the UK-based consumer goods company Reckitt.. The brand includes traps and baits for use around the home for trapping and killing some rats and mice.
This is to prevent unintended consequences of rat poison killing NYC pets, like the Rottweiler puppy who died after eating rat poison while on a walk in Washington Heights in late 2022.
The resulting agricultural failures, compounded by misguided policies of the Great Leap Forward, triggered a severe famine from 1958 to 1962. The death toll from starvation during this period reached 20 to 30 million people, [ 17 ] underscoring the high human cost of the ecological mismanagement inherent in the "Four Pests" campaign.