Rodents winning New York rat race, but humans fight back

By Verena Dobnik

Published June 16, 2014 1:37pm ET

Rodents winning New York rat race, but humans fight back — A rat moves along the ground near the subway tracks at Union Square in New York. In July 2014, New York City plans to got to war with its rat population. Financed with $611,000 from the City's budget, an army of inspectors will descend on the cityâs most rat-infested neighborhoods, targeting the parks, sewers and dumping areas where rats congregate and breed. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File) | Frank Franklin II

NEW YORK — Ines Moore stirs awake nearly every night to an unmistakable, skin-crawling sound: rats skittering around her apartment in the dark.

Sticky traps scattered around the tidy, fifth-floor walkup yield as many as three rats a night, what she believes is just a fraction of the invading army that makes her feel under siege.

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