Rat alarm in Osnabrück: City fights creatively against the vermin!

Rat alarm in Osnabrück: City fights creatively against the vermin!

In Osnabrück, a new campaign was launched for clarifying the growing rat problem in the city. The city administration has decided to use multilingual posters in comic style to inform citizens about how to avoid rat infestation. Heike Pape, board member for social affairs, citizen service and personnel, emphasizes that rats not only represent a hygienic problem, but are also a risk of the city's infrastructure.

A main factor for the rat problem is the wrong waste disposal. The campaign aims to reach the population and reduce the spread of rats. The posters designed by graphic artist Sascha Dörp show comic figures in front of a garbage mountain and provide information about the topic of "rats" in several languages, including German, English, Arabic, Turkish, Russian and Bulgarian. In addition, the city gives tips on the right waste disposal on its website and wrote around 1,250 households with information letters for waste disposal and avoiding rat.

health risks by rats

like apex-schaedlingenbekajunfe.de reports. These animals can be up to 120 different illnesses Transfer, including dangerous diseases such as rabies, hepatitis and salmonellosis. You can also cause damage to buildings by gnawing materials such as wood, plastic and cables, which can lead to short circuits and thus risk of fire. In the food industry, rats can nibble down packaging and contaminate the content. Damage to water pipes and insulating materials are also possible, which can lead to further financial burdens.

Prevention of rat infestation is of great importance. Effective measures include the removal of food sources and hiding places as well as professional waste disposal. With its campaign, the city of Osnabrück takes an important step to raise awareness of the problem and to encourage citizens to cooperate. Further measures to combat the rat plague are already being planned.