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Re:NYC Subway Rat Detector by DoingIsLearning on Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:28PM (#38119651)
The heuristic is off. Urban rats are a vector for Leptospirosis.

The only thing those three (rats, bedbugs, mosquitos) have in common is that they reproduce faster than we can kill them and they hide well.

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Re:NYC Subway Rat Detector by neom on Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:38PM (#38119798)
According to this there are less than 200 cases of Leptospirosis a year in the US and most of them are in Hawaii.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9629868/

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Re:NYC Subway Rat Detector by DoingIsLearning on Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:02PM (#38120099)
That's because people have learned to keep their food where rats can't pee on it. Doesn't mean they are not disease carrying.
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Re:NYC Subway Rat Detector by dvngnt_ on Thursday November 02, 2023 @07:28PM (#38121900)
did you ever see that house episode with mos def
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