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Doomsday's flood in Paris with 4 Million RATS rampage AMDK city

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【慎入】洪水將至,鼠患也來了!巴黎塞納河暴漲 逾400萬老鼠恐湧入城市
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法國巴黎連日來陰雨不斷,塞納河水位不斷上漲,巴黎在23日宣布橙色警報,目前法國已有26個省進入橙色警示。更令人恐懼的是,巴黎近年也深受鼠患所苦,一旦水位淹沒老鼠洞穴,至少380萬隻的老鼠恐將傾巢而出,湧上巴黎的大街小巷。

法廣報導,巴黎橙色預警指出,塞納河段的水位持續上漲,最高水位預計出現在1月26日,可能達到6.1公尺高。巴黎地鐵RER C線目前已經因河水上漲而部分停駛。市中心的聖母院站、奧賽美術館站等等,至少到26日才能復駛。

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巴黎塞納河水位不斷上漲,可能引發水患、鼠患。(美聯社)
最可怕的是,巴黎過去幾年一直深受鼠患困擾,水位上漲可能把老鼠從巢穴中逼出,嚙齒動物習性顧問法爾加利亞克表示,巴黎市民要做好心理準備,將會見到更多老鼠出沒在大街小巷,牠們可能更加頻繁出沒於地下室、排水道等陰濕之處。

中央社引述自法爾加利亞克,巴黎平均每人家裡有1.75隻老鼠,這一數字在大城市算是普遍,老鼠60%-75%的時間都在自己的洞穴中度過,只有覓食與水的時候才會外出。

2017年12月,《巴黎人日報》(Le Parisien)媒體公開了一支街道清潔人員拍攝的影片,他掀開超多老鼠在奧塞美術館(Musee d’Orsay)附近一個大型垃圾箱裡,發現裡面有數十隻老鼠在瘋狂推擠彼此搶食。

這名清潔人員表示:「過去一年,我們觀察到老鼠正在迅速繁殖。」他還強調,「都是很大隻的老鼠,也越來越不怕人」,清潔人員說曾有老鼠直接跳上他同事的喉嚨和手臂上。據報導目前還沒有人被老鼠咬傷,但希望政府盡快應對,以免真的有人受傷。

本次塞納河水位上漲首先將會波及那些身體最弱的老鼠,其中很大一部分將不可避免死亡,而此時並不是老鼠繁殖高峰,因此就算暫時市民會覺得市內出現更多老鼠,但實際上老鼠總量有可能下降。

早在2016年,巴黎市政府就注意到公共場所的老鼠越來越多,《費加洛報》(Le Figaro)引用都市衛生專家法蓋哈克(Pierre Falgayrac)的估計,市內至少有380萬隻老鼠,比居民人口還多。但時隔一年多,老鼠的數量應在持續增加中。

Severity of Paris rat infestation captured in horrifying footage https://t.co/5iGSP78bKZpic.twitter.com/B5Ks230riw

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專家指出,老鼠數量增加的原因可能包括歐盟對滅鼠藥的使用設限,氣候暖化也令冬天多數時候不夠寒冷,餐飲業者、居民和遊客隨意棄置廚餘和食物也是原因之一。

《費加洛報》也指出,老鼠會對同一種誘餌產生警覺性,因此必須時時更換誘餌種類;還有專家建議採用讓老鼠淹死的陷阱,以及設計讓老鼠難以爬入的垃圾桶、加強公共場所清潔等等。

根據報導,負責清潔事務的副市長潘尼諾(Mao Peninou)回應,所有相關單位都盡全力處理這個問題,去年9月,巴黎市政府也動支了150萬歐元(約新台幣5370萬元)對付鼠患。

除了官方措施外, 一般人也能夠協助繳少鼠患,最重要的就是不要隨便在公共場所亂丟食物,若老鼠可以飽食一頓,就很難被誘餌引進捕鼠器。

老鼠不僅在視覺上會引起恐慌,也可能傳播下水道的大量寄生蟲與病菌,有害公共衛生與人體.
 

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Paris dustmen sound alarm over plague of rats on banks of river Seine

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22 JANUARY 2018 • 11:32 AM


Paris rubbish collectors have released a video to sound the alarm over a plague of rats that have invaded the banks of the Seine, claiming that the rodents now pose a physical threat to dustmen.

Shot last month between the tourist landmark of the Musée d’Orsay and the Pont Royal, the film shows a huge group of the large vermin desperately trying to escape from a deep plastic municipal rubbish bin.

The dustman who shot the film, known only as David, can be heard shouting: “Look in the bin, there are a million rats!”

He said colleagues were so overwhelmed, they simply shut the bin and “crushed” all the rats in their garbage truck.

The “horror” scene was, according to the municipal collector, far from a one-off.

“For the past year, we’ve seen a proliferation of rats in all the arrondissements on the banks of the Seine,” the dustman told Le Parisien, the French capital’s daily newspaper. He said the situation was no longer tenable “both for Parisians and tourists who come to visit the most beautiful city in the world”.

The rats are becoming increasingly emboldened and are highly aggressive, he added. “One colleague told me that a rat jumped at his throat and another at his arm,” he told the paper. “To my knowledge, there have been no bites for now but we don’t want to wait until drama strikes.”



The dustmen are calling on Paris town hall to “take measures to eradicate the problem” and on restaurant owners in the area to take better care of their rubbish, which is providing the rodents with an easy source of food.

The rat infestation first came to public attention late 2016 amid an outcry from Parisians that they could no longer frequent several city parks due to the numbers of rodents.

Paris town hall reacted by officially waging war on the pests, closing off a string of parks and gardens and laying a host of “environmentally friendly” traps and poisons as well as blocking off sewer entrances.


Last September, it pumped €1.5 million into keeping the pests under control. But the measures have been apparently had little impact. Experts estimate that there up to two rats per inhabitant in Paris, whose inner city has a population of 2.2 million.

Mao Peninou, deputy mayor in charge of city cleanliness, said it was aware of the fact that “rats can increasingly be seen in public areas”. “All units concerned are tackling the problem head on,” she said.

A Paris city employee shows a dead rat in the Saint Jacques Tower park, in the center of Paris CREDIT: FRANCOIS MORI/AP
One of the issues has been the recent flooding of the river Seine, which is currently at its highest level in a decade. “For the past year or two we have seen a displacement of rats towards the surface,” said vermin specialist Stephane Bras.

Another is that half of Parisian rats are immune to poison, according to a recent study, which also found that there rodents carried more parasites than previously thought - up to 16 including seven that are potentially dangerous to man.

Not everyone is against the rat presence. Last September, some 25,000 people signed a petition to stop the “genocide” of the rodents.

Josette Benchetrit, a clinical psychologist who launched the petition, said: “Rat phobia is an unwarranted social phobia, like spider phobia. Give a rat a beautiful bushy tail and you’ve got a squirrel — an animal we love. These poor unfortunates are being mercilessly killed because they’ve been designated by society as scapegoats to be eradicated.”

But many are fed up with seeing rats on the streets and say the “deratisation” campaign appears to have had little impact. Some blame EU regulations restricting the use of poison.

New rules ban the sprinkling of anticoagulant pellets to avoid contaminating pets, water supplies or people.

Instead, poison must be placed in small plastic boxes, which pest control workers say is less effective


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Viewers around the world fell for loveable Parisian rat Remy and his gang of subterranean pals in Disney’s 2007 hit Ratatouille, but their real-life counterparts are proving a little less popular.

The city of Paris this week announced a crackdown on the rodents following the “recent rise of [their] presence in Paris’s public spaces.” Measures include the introduction of environmentally-friendly rat traps in the affected areas and blocking exits to the sewer system.

The city has already temporarily closed two parks in order to clear the rodents, and is set to close several more for at least two weeks, including the Champ de Mars recreation ground underneath the Eiffel Tower.

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Paris has also announced plans to introduce rat-proof bins and a revised rubbish collection timetable for its street cleaners to prevent refuse being left out too long. These measures will be accompanied by a campaign to raise awareness of the problem, while warning residents and tourists not to feed the city’s pigeons.

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The rat population of the French capital is estimated to outnumber the total number of human inhabitants (2.2 million) by a factor of two to one.

The mayor’s office said that the total eradication of rats would be “impossible”, but they aim to reduce numbers “significantly”, pushing them back from public spaces in particular.


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As well as being a public health hazard, the proliferation of the rodents has also proved embarrassing for the city, notably when the problem was brought to international attention in 2014 after images circulated of packs of rats scavenging scraps next to picnickers in the gardens of the Louvre.







Telegraph Travel reported on the city’s €23m investment plan aimed at attracting tourists back to the city following terrorist attacks in 2015 and flooding this year. The municipality plan to invest in English classes for hospitality staff and will introduce a new CityPass and tourism app, among other measures.

You can read Anthony Horowitz’s piece on why it’s always easy to fall in love with Paris all over again here.

And if you fancy taking an impromptu break of your own, we have a guide to how to do Paris for less than £200 here.


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