New York, NY (1888PressRelease)
July 19, 2007 - Once thriving Queens neighborhoods have now become wastelands besieged with rats as a result.
“We never had a rat problem until the preventable blackouts last summer when con edison starting opening up the grounds. Rats now rummage our trash cans, lie dead in the streets, run up and down the steps of our buildings. We can’t go anywhere in this neighborhood without the threat of rats reaching out to bite as we take our children and dogs for a stroll. My neighbor rushed his gravely ill dog to the hospital after ingesting food laced with rodent urine & feces”, says Yves Marie Danie Baptiste, founder of MLMOnlineMagazine.com
FACT:
• Rat-borne diseases have killed more people than any wars fought.
• Wild rats contract a disease from their fleas called ‘The Great Plague’. A red ring would appear on one’s body exposing the rat bite. Rosy red is the color that would appear in the middle of the red ring, hence, the meaning of the nursery rhyme: “Ring Around The Rosy.” When people died from the rat disease their families would put flowers called “Posies” in the dead person’s clothes to cover up the smell. This is the meaning of the line: “Pocket Full Of Posies”. Those bitten by the rats would get a bad cold as a sign that they would soon die, hence, the meaning of line: “Ashes, ashes (originally ‘achoo-achoo’) we all fall down.”
• Rat-bite fever (RBF): Rat-bite fever (RBF) is a systemic bacterial illness caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis that is contracted through the bite or scratch of a rodent or the ingestion of food or water contaminated with rat feces.
“Our building, owned by Joseph Galea, of J.C. Management, is the one most affected by the invasion of rats. It should be shut down because it is a health hazard & against the law to operate. The rats have made their way inside our apartments and going to the bathroom in our foods. Both Con Edison & J.C. Management should be fined. We deserve an apology from Con edison for not doing their job in the first place along with 6 months free gas/electricity and to be moved out of the building by J.C. management, all expenses paid, into rat zone free units. We are desperately crying out to the public for support”, says a tenant who wishes only to be identified as Val.
If you’d like more information or to schedule an interview with Yves Marie Danie Baptiste, please call Mildred Firestone at: PR ( @ ) MLMOnlineMagazine dot com
