Between the sewer rat welfare and public health, should we choose?

Press release of the French National Academy of Medicine (*) July 15, 2022

The sewer rat proliferates worryingly in large cities, Paris, particularly. Whether called Rattus norvegicus, brown rat or Norway rat, it is the most harmful of human commensal species due to its great adaptability, its food requirements, its intense prolificity and, especially, the bacterial, viral and parasitic zoonoses of which it can be the vector.