European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Rats humans to in War Jane e. Brody s expressions like dirty rat rates nest rat race and smelt a rat suggest rats May be Peoples least favorite creature. But the scientists a who study them express nothing but admiration for the rat s instincts ingenuity and tenacity. The rat new research is showing May be humanity a most formidable foe a secretive prolific and opportunistic creature Quick to sense and avoid danger. Scientists say these traits have enabled rats to thrive despite concerted efforts to eradicate them. Quot they Are genuine survivors a a said James e. Childs of Johns Hopkins medical Center who skulls around garbage strewn alleys of Balti. More to study them. A they can live under a remarkably wide Range of  Childs a specialist in infectious diseases carried by rodents is known on the streets of Baltimore As Ratman and the old land Cruiser he Long used was dubbed rat Mobile. The names Are Well deserved since 1983, Childs and col leagues have trapped Well Over a thousand rats in Baltimore to study How they live and reproduce and the diseases they Harbor. Some of his work gives those who loathe rats new cause for concern he has discovered that two thirds of the rats captured in Baltimore had been infected with a Han tavirus a virus that causes Hemorrhagic fever a serious and sometimes fatal disease in Many asian countries. The virus can also cause chronic kidney. Disease and possibly kidney failure in humans. Childs found evidence of the infection in people who have never travelled outside the United states. In another study James w. 1 Leduc an infectious disease specialist with the army who is working with the Johns Hopkins team linked Han tavirus infection to chronic kidney disease and hypertension in Baltimore residents who acquired the virus in this country. The suspected cause in both studies rats. The army medical research Institute at fort Ditrick md., is financing much of the research because the virus can infect troops As it did in the korean War so How do you gel rid of rats Richard lore a psychologist at Rutgers University and his colleagues have dug around municipal garbage dumps for years to Analyse the construction and contents of rat Burrows which can House hundreds of rats. Lore is studying factors that cause aggressive acts among rats whose social behaviour is said to closely parallel human interactions. By studying them he May learn More about Why Man acts the Way that he does. He May also learn enough about rats to figure out How to eliminate them. Lore save the Blunt nosed thick bodied nor a 1. Way rats the ones most frequently studied by researchers can wriggle into holes less than 1 a inches wide in search of food. Even though the rats have appetites that Are Large and varied ranging from table scraps and stored foods to cloth and shoe leather they Are still Picky eaters Quot they wont eat spoiled food Quot lore said. A since they can to vomit they have no Way to. A. Not the Norway rat has survived Many a determined efforts to eliminate it. A. Get rid of food that is making them ill Quot this is often cited As the reason it is so diff cull to kill rats with poisoned bait. After one taste of tainted food the rats become bait shy. Furthermore if any of the rats in a Colony gel sick after eating something the entire Colony will then avoid that food. And lore found animals that had once been caught in a live trap if avoid the trap in the future even if it is baited with a preferred food so he says if humans want to get rid of rats humans Are going to have to get smarter while rats done to. A a the past has shown that in t Likely to happen and that the rodent survivor will be with us quite a bit longer new York Tolmei. A at a glance Luxembourg crisscrossed by Many Rivers. Large deposits of Iron Ore provide the nucleus of the country s thriving steel Industry. The capital Luxembourg is Home to nearly one Quarter of the nations residents and to numerous International economic and government agencies its a fact Luxembourg was invaded by Germany during both world w ars. The Battle of the bulge was fought partly on its territory in 1944-45 and thousands of americans killed in the Battle Are buried nearby. Size 998 Square Miles smaller than Rhode Island population 369,000 1989 estimate main language French German Luxembourg Ian currency franc $1�33,41 travel restrictions no visa required for american tourists. Overview. Despite its Small size Luxembourg has two distinct geographic areas the ardennes plateau in the Northern third and the Fertile Bon pays a Good Earth quo made up of rolling Hills and plateaus in South. The country is any questions if you eat a Salty food does drinking extra water help get rid of the excess Salt faster a a a. Drinking a lot of water will help some and it is a matter of simple dilution in both cells and blood according to or Helene Wenert of the department of nutrition at the University of California at Davis. Though it is possible to get rid of the Salt somewhat faster by drinking extra water beyond the amount needed to satisfy thirst she said she cautioned that drinking water is not a License to overindulge in Salty foods especially if someone has High blood pressure. Quot water is needed to excrete excess amounts of any electrolyte not just sodium Chloride but potassium and Many others a Wenert said. The body is designed to handle a specific Load of such dissolved salts she said and they need to be in balance with the water in the body and with each other. Electrolyte imbalance in the other direction causes trouble in some Low fat diets especially Low calorie diets for the very obese Swenerton said. On these diets the body starts to break Down tissues and in excreting extra amounts of breakdown products like ammonia and uric acid it loses a certain amount of needed electrolytes. Imbalances might trigger a heart attack for example. In such diets strict medical monitoring of the blood is necessary. A Mew York times c sunday August 5. 1990