Category: Vancouver Rat Project

British Columbia / Vancouver Rat Project / Website Rotator

2023-08-29

A Human Outbreak of Shigellosis Reveals the Variety of Infectious Organisms Carried in Wild Urban Rat Feces

A rat darts down your grimy city sidewalk. While rats have notoriously spread the Black Death across Medieval Europe, what other infectious organisms do rats carry that can make you sick? In 2021, there...

Do rat control programs work to reduce public health risks?

British Columbia / Mammals / Rats / Research / Uncategorized / Urban Wildlife / Vancouver Rat Project / Website Rotator

2019-04-03

Do rat control programs work to reduce public health risks?

Rats! They are the source of a number of bacteria and viruses that can cause disease in people. In cities, the goal of most rat control programs is to reduce these rat-associated public health...

British Columbia / Graduate Students / News & Announcements / Research / Urban Wildlife / Vancouver Rat Project / Website Rotator

2018-03-19

Vancouver Rat Project Awarded New Funding

The Vancouver Rat Project and the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative were recently awarded $25,000 in the City of Vancouver’s annual Street Cleaning Grant to begin research on a solution to the persistent city-wide rat...

Category: Vancouver Rat Project

A Human Outbreak of Shigellosis Reveals the Variety of Infectious Organisms Carried in Wild Urban Rat Feces

Do rat control programs work to reduce public health risks?

Vancouver Rat Project Awarded New Funding

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