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To: AugustWest who wrote (347)	11/7/2001 8:56:35 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 363

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To: AugustWest who wrote (347)	11/12/2001 11:05:35 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 363

Dead Rats a Hot Commodity Monday November 12 7:53 AM ET dailynews.yahoo.com RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - In a Brazilian (news - web sites) city where rats outnumber humans 10 to 1, city hall will pay residents for all the dead rodents they can find as part of a new campaign aimed at eliminating the vermin. ``The rat population has gotten out of hand and we had to come up with an alternative plan to eradicate them,'' Uranis Assuncao, coordinator of the project in the city of Nova Iguacu, told Reuters on Friday. As a result, the local health department is going to apply rat poison in sewers, abandoned buildings and other suspect locations and will pay residents $2 for every 2.2 pounds of dead rats they find, he said. Officials will collect the carcasses so residents do not touch them. But health experts worry rats could become a hot commodity as poor residents start rearing them for extra cash. ``I don't have any doubts but that people are going to start raising rats in order to survive,'' Jorge Darze, the president of Rio de Janeiro's doctors association, told local media. ''People already hunt for food in the garbage.'' In Nova Iguacu -- a poor, sprawling city of 750,500 just north of Rio de Janeiro -- less than half the homes have regular garbage pickup or sewer access and, as a result, there are 10 rats for every human, according to officials. But they expect to put a big dent in the rodent population with the campaign that starts on Monday. ``With this new plan we expect to collect up to 5 tons of dead rats just in the first 20 days,'' Assuncao said. ``These disease-spreading rodents have up to 12 offspring a month so we have to do something before it's too late.''