Bring 2 1/4 cups water to a boil and add the rice and 1 teaspoon of the salt. Return to a boil, cover, and simmer for 30 to 40 minutes, until the rice is tender and all the water is absorbed. Transfer the rice to a bowl.
Opossums stop the spread of Lyme disease because they kill up to 4,000 ticks a week. Claims about possums and ticks are mostly true â but the amount of ticks one possum kills in a week has been skewed.
For the Eastern Hemisphere marsupial, see possum. For other uses of Opossum, see Opossum (disambiguation) . The opossums, also known by their scientific name Didelphimorphia /daÉªËdÉlfÉ¨ËmÉrfiÉ/), make up the largest order of marsupials in the Western Hemisphere, including 103 or more species in 19 genera.possums are about eight times less likely to carry rabies than wild dogs, and about one in eight hundred opossums is infected with this virus. Although all living opossums are essentially opportunistic omnivores, different species vary in the amount of meat and vegetation they include in their diet.