One victim fell ill after drinking a bottle of water she left in her vehicle while parked at a Costco, officials said.

This rat poison, in powder form, mixed and circulated in the closed, air-conditioned room during the night while the family slept. The four of them slept through the night unwittingly inhaling poison.

The city has confiscated 140 pounds of banned rat poison this month but street vendors keep selling the stuff – as one expert warned the black market could have deadly consequences.

Dog died slow death after eating rat poison ... the heart-sinking feeling that October day two years ago when she looked out onto her back yard and then saw a blue powder ...

In the first half of 2024, the Rat Rubout team’s calls have increased 25% over the same period in 2023, city officials told the Baltimore City Council during a recent meeting.The city is also ...

To the well-known list of rat poisons, such as arsenic trioxide, red squill and zinc phosphide, the last years of the War added another, a-naphtha-thiourea. Dr. C. P. Richter, of Baltimore, was ...

But better regulation and tracking of rat poison use is likely to be needed in many places around the world. Meghan P. Keating is a PhD Candidate in wildlife and fisheries biology at Clemson ...

Scientists at Deakin University previously found rat poison was to blame for killing powerful owls. In 2022, in a study looking at the prey of powerful owls, the team dissected 160 possums.

When rats and mice consume poison, they don’t die right on the spot, she said. They carry on looking for food and water, and sometimes are eaten by predators like bald eagles, coyotes and foxes.

An owl at the Habitat Education Center in Belmont died after ingesting rat poison, conservation organization Mass Audubon said in a press release. On Nov. 5, a visitor to the habitat, which is ...