After the first Plague-infected rat was discovered in Brisbane, Australia in 1900, Australia’s Queensland Health Department implemented the Rat Gang, a ten-person team to eradicate rats. In just one year the gang laid over 400,000 poison baits, and their dogs killed thousands of rats.
Whatever happened to the Plague? The unbelievable answer is that rats helped end it over most of the world. That story is told here.
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