Now The Rats Are Sinking The Leaking Ship While the massive
population of New York City is awfully impacted by Sandy, there
is a more populous and even more caustic population that is
struggling with the aftermath: Rats! As Forbes notes, the NYC
Subway is notorious for its rat population and with all five
subway tubes now submerged, one can only imagine where these
cute cuddly rabies-wielding devil rodents will make their new
homes. "Rats are incredibly good swimmers and they can climb" is
hardly the reassuring news lower Manhattan homeowners were
looking for, and as the Daily Mail notes, this could bring
infectious diseases such as leptospirosis, hantavirus, typhus,
salmonella, and even the plague into human contact. On the
bright side (well not really), rats don't need to bite a human
to transmit its gross payload; rodent feces and urine can spread
conditions like hantavirus just as easily - get long hand
sanitizer stocks! If they can do this - then what happens when
they are forced above ground? Cue gratui