Watch the video: “Bloodthirsty” against plague – New York introduces first official rat commissioner.
STORY: According to official figures, the most populous city in the United States also has the largest population of rats. But in the fight against the plague with the rodents, New York Mayor Eric Adams has now, for the first time in the history of the metropolis, introduced a chief officer who got the job after a job advertisement. Kathleen Corradi, director of rat control: “Bloodthirsty is not the word you would normally find in a job advertisement. And I would never describe myself that way. But the advertisement for a rat tsar interested me.” Corradi is a former teacher in the city, so one can probably speak of a career leap, because the new position involves a salary range of 120,000 to 170,000 US dollars, but the work is not without it, official information from the year According to 2014, around two million rats live in the city on the US east coast.