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New 'super rats' evolve resistance to poison
Telegraph UK ^
Posted on 05/16/2009 11:12:56 AM PDT by bethybabes69
Rats across Britain are evolving a resistance to poison that makes them almost impossible to kill, scientists have warned.
Genetic mutations have produced a new breed of "super rat" with DNA that protects the vermin from standard toxins, according to Professor Robert Smith at the University of Huddersfield.
Ratcatchers in Berkshire and Hampshire were the first to report that their poisons were no longer effective, which experts put down to increased immunity among the pests.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: england; health; pests; plague; rodents; virus
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An old friend who was involved with civil consruction, mainly sewers and systems, had an incessant interest in rats, and the fight to control their populations.
He has preached about the dramatic rise in rat populations in Britain, and has lectured on the impact on Public Health of a new, 'poison resistant' rodent.
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To: bethybabes69
New 'super rats' evolve resistance to poison
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:14:54 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: JackRyanCIA
Them too!! Drowning look like a better action.
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:16:18 AM PDT
by
handy old one
(It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle)
To: bethybabes69
This is a job for: 
Super..........
To: bethybabes69; Cuttnhorse
The only solution is to eat 'em...
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:17:39 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 117 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: null and void
I wonder what wine would go with that.
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:18:45 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: bethybabes69
I guess the brits will have to experiment with ricin, or go back to the old “toxic” type heavy metal poisons that are generally banned.
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:19:20 AM PDT
by
mdmathis6
To: SIDENET
Dunno. I’d guess it would go better with a lager...
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:19:50 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 117 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: bethybabes69
Funny how things stay the same.
This ‘super rat’ has been around in one form or another since at least the early 1970’s. Along with the disappearing honey bee and the ‘super bug’ drug resistant germs that are going to devistate the human population.
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:20:53 AM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(Willful ignorance is a dangerous attitude.)
To: null and void
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:21:12 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: SIDENET
This is what I pictured. Then I thot, maybe they are eating ACORNs...
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:22:45 AM PDT
by
Freedom56v2
(If you think health care is expensive now, just wait till it is free PJ Orourke)
To: JackRyanCIA
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:23:06 AM PDT
by
I Hate Obama
(Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made- Otto Von Bismarck)
To: bethybabes69
This is why I have a gun.
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:23:39 AM PDT
by
I Hate Obama
(Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made- Otto Von Bismarck)
To: SIDENET
The only person I know who has eaten cuy usually orders it “sin cola con Cola” (Without the tail, with a Coke, ). I suspect that isn’t so much a beverage/food pairing as an irresistible pun.
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:27:20 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 117 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: I Hate Obama
This is why I have a gun.
Yup, effective.
I have hunting dogs that adore the chore of keeping vermin down.
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:27:38 AM PDT
by
bethybabes69
(Reichstag Flu, coming to a town near you, right before the revolution is planned to commence!)
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To: bethybabes69
So have they evolved resistance to ratshot?
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:29:10 AM PDT
by
ottbmare
(Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Obama! (If you're old enough, you'll understand the reference))
To: SIDENET
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:30:22 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
(Better to convert enemies to allies than to destroy them)
To: bethybabes69
Thalium, Arsenic, glue traps, and lots of others things will work just fine, but they aren’t “eco friendly”
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posted on
05/16/2009 11:31:05 AM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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