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They wifi destroy about a fifth of the worlds food crops. Rats and their parasites will spread at least 20 kinds of disease, from typhus to trichinosis to the deadly Lassa fever. In Asia, Africa, and the Americas including the western United States people will die of plague, home by the rats parasites. The war against the four-legge- d menace is worldwide. Rat control is a matter of human survival in Asia, where rats consume enough rice each year to feed a quarter of a billion people. There is new hope: After thousands of hours of experimenting, American and Philippine scientists have found they can cut crop losses in the Philippine rice fields by 95 percent by strategically daring poison bait stations. Attack From Air IN HAWAII, rats did $11 million worth of damage to the sugarcane crop last year. 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