Sentences with phrase «plagued by rodents»
Stringer's audit says that the city has been placing «homeless families with children in shelters plagued by rodents, mold, peeling paint, and broken windows,» among other structural and maintenance problems.
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A new report out of the MTA found that the Bronx's many subway stations are the dirtiest in the city, plagued by garbage, leaks and rodents.
That is the plague we know today: a true zoonosis sustained by infected rodents and the fleas that prey on them.
* Two small lab vials of Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague, is an acute bacterial infection transmitted to humans and some domestic animals by fleas that come from infected rodents.
The plague is caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which is carried by fleas and mostly affects rodents.
Believed to have originally come to Europe from Asia via the Silk Road trading route, it was thought that the repeated plague outbreaks that followed the Black Death epidemic were caused by rodent reservoirs in Europe — bacteria - infested fleas hiding out in rats.
Without any positive evidence against the suspicious industrialist, officers slap a closed sign on the animal experimentation operation and the rodents soon finds themselves incarcerated in a pet store cage with a hairy, flatulence - plagued pig (voice by Jon Favreau) and psychotic hamster (voice by Steve Buscemi).
Humans usually get plague after being bitten by a rodent flea that is carrying the plague bacterium or by handling an animal infected with plague.
Cats contract bubonic plague in the same manner as humans, from yersina pestis bacteria carried by a flea whose natural hosts are rodents.